Новости за 05.07.2016

Whatever the Iraq Inquiry report says about the ex-Prime Minister, the public made up its mind long ago

The aim of the report is to learn lessons from past mistakes, but public expectation will be looking for blame. This clash of expectations may well lead to a sense of disappointment

There was always a disconnect between what most of the frontline junior doctors working in the NHS thought they were fighting for and what the union thought it could extract from the Government

The past few weeks have shown that the supposed Rolls Royce of Britain's civil service is in fact vulnerable to major shocks, and when such shocks strike the burden increasingly falls on other institutions – primarily, the Bank – to manage the trauma

Nigel Farage had a dream – he dreamed of taking this country back to the Fifties, and he has doubled out splendidly on that

The Chilcot report is an opportunity for Brits to think that the state is actually doing something of worth, after reducing large parts of what was an advanced and highly educated Arab nation to a smouldering slag heap

The fact is that there has already been a significant impact on financial markets from last week's referendum result and it isn't over yet

A senior counterterrorism official told me that Isis' strategy in Pakistan was to 'target the intelligentsia'

There was confusion and muddle and serious miscalculations. Most of the big mistakes were made by politicians in London who got bees in their bonnet about the Middle East, ignored or excluded the experts, and, perhaps their most besetting sin, failed to think policy through

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Utterly dependent on Downing Street and Britain's intelligence chiefs for information it could not verify, the media meekly fell into line with Government propagandists

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Hunt will continue to allege this is a pay dispute, but the real reason is the gaps in our rotas caused by young doctors quitting the profession in despair. Every one of these gaps puts patients at risk

He said he'd do one thing after Brexit and he did another, after failing to meet his own aims which were unrealistic in the first place. Osborne's record is simply shambolic

Any potential Prime Minister backed by a Chancellor who creates targets criticised for their credibility is unlikely to garner the support of the general public

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Saying that the commanders were respecting the decisions of Parliament just won't cut it. Each of us has to make choices. But while it's socially acceptable to criticise a war, it's considered beyond the pale to challenge the armed forces

With the rise of so many far-right parties across Europe, we could be seeing the return of fascism to the continent

Why it took so long, what will happen to Tony Blair and what the point is in the first place