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Mesopotamia has always been a place where imperial fantasies go to die — and are just as perpetually reborn. As it happens, this year is not only the 20th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, on Sunday to be exact.

IT is still one of the biggest acts of political deceit, distortion, and deception of modern times. Some, understandably, would simply prefer to…

One of the great “Ifs…” of recent history is to imagine what would have happened if, instead of allying himself with Bush, Blair had made common cause with the French president, Jacques Chirac, and Gerhard Schröder, the German chancellor, in expressing sympathy for the US after 9/11 but warning that an invasion of Iraq would be disastrous. It could have transformed the course of European history, and we might never have had Brexit.

For those of us lucky enough to call ourselves his friends, it was impossible not to love him

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: Newly invested Knight of the Garter Tony Blair had to wait until after the death of Prince Philip to receive the honour from the Queen, according to author Gyles Brandreth.

[videopress ro5S4BSH hd=true permalink=false autoplay=true]   In an apparent slip of the tongue, former US President George W Bush has condemned the brutal and wholly unjusti...

The UK has been an active participant in the death and destruction that US actions have unleashed in West Asia, especially in Iraq.

From the blog of Alex Brummer at Jewish News

THE HERALD of January 5 carried two items on the subject of assisted dying.

ROSE Gentle spent the night before her son’s funeral by his body in the bedroom of their Glasgow home.