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  • 14 Dec 2012
    Reprieve hails forcible rendition settlement victory

    Legal charity Reprieve has welcomed a settlement the al Saadi family have accepted from the UK Government, which forcibly ‘rendering’ them to Gaddafi’s Libya.

  • 14 Oct 2011
    Focus on Middle East Quartet policy, rather than Tony Blair

    As discussions over the future of Israel and Palestine resumes in Brussels this weekend, attention has once again turned towards the role of the Quartet on the Middle East, the collectivity of nations and international and supranational bodies involved in mediating the peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

  • 21 Jan 2011
    Demonstration greets Tony Blair at Iraq Inquiry

    CND is calling for Tony Blair "to be held to account for his criminal decision to take Britain into an illegal war" as he appears at the Iraq Inquiry.

  • 13 Jan 2011
    Demonstrators to gather for Blair's appearance at Iraq Inquiry

    The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament will jointly organise a demonstration outside the Iraq Inquiry when Tony Blair is recalled to give evidence

  • 5 Oct 2010
    God is in the (political) details

    It is easy to be won over by the universal moral or religious principles espoused by a skilled rhetorician such as Tony Blair. However, John Heathershaw argues that in politics, from university league tables to the war in Iraq, God is in the details.

  • 8 Sep 2010
    I should have been arresting Tony Blair today

    In my diary for today – Wednesday 8 September – I had written, “Arrest Tony Blair”. Along with several others, I had planned to join the queue at Blair's book signing in London. On reaching the front of the queue, each of us would have attempted a citizen's arrest for crimes against peace.

  • 7 Sep 2010
    Crimes against the English language
    There are some authors whose speaking voice one hears clearly when reading their written words.
  • 6 Sep 2010
    Blair would have faced attempted citizen's arrest at book signing

    A group of campaigners have said they were planning to attempt a citizen’s arrest of Tony Blair at his London book signing, which has now been cancelled.

  • 5 Sep 2010
    Tony Blair faces attempted arrest in Dublin

    Kate O'Sullivan, a customer at Tony Blair's book signing in Dublin, attempted to make a citizen's arrest for war crimes in relation to the invasion of Iraq.

  • 1 Sep 2010
    Blair, BAE and misleading memoirs

    I thought that Tony Blair had lost the ability to shock me. But within a few seconds of picking up his newly published memoirs today, I realised I was mistaken.