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• 08 Feb 2010 16:23

  

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  • Education

    Lazy bureaucrats, burden or blessing?

    • The Guardian, Tuesday February 9 2010
    • Marc Abrahams
    The lazy bureaucrat problem is ancient, as old as bureaucracy itself. In the 1990s, mathematicians decided to look at the problem. They have since made progress that, depending on your point of view, is either impressive or irrelevant. Four scientists at the State University of New York, Stony Brook issued the first formal report. The Lazy Bureaucrat Scheduling Problem, by Est

    University of Technology in Tehran presented a paper in 2002 at the Telecommunication Research Center. Titling it New Results for Lazy Bureaucrat Scheduling

  • Technology

    Breakfast briefing: 's latest internet clampdown - plus SAP and Amazon

    • guardian.co.uk, Monday February 8 2010
    • Bobbie Johnson, San Francisco
    • Internet connections in are apparently grinding to a halt ahead of upcoming anti-government protests. Why? Officially, the government is blaming it on the fact that "part of the fibre-optic network is damaged." - by which time the latest round of protests are likely to be over. • It's not often we talk about SAP - the German software giant that, thanks to its

    bull; Internet connections in are apparently grinding to a halt ahead of upcoming anti-government

  • Iran steps up uranium enrichment

    
    • guardian.co.uk, Monday February 8 2010
    Video (1m 16sec): Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the country's president, orders atomic energy organisation to begin enriching its uranium stockpile to a higher level, casting doubt on the prospects of a swap deal with the West

    bull; Internet connections in are apparently grinding to a halt ahead of upcoming anti-government

  • Jack Straw at the Iraq war inquiry - as it happened

    • guardian.co.uk, Monday February 8 2010
    1.33pm: Jack Straw, the justice secretary, has already given evidence to the Iraq inquiry about the foreign policy aspects of the decision to go to war. But, as foreign secretary in 2003, he also took a close interest in the legality of the conflict and today he is appearing to discuss the legal issues. The Liberal Democrats have accused him of trying to "hide the truth" ab

  • Tehran's nuclear glue

    • The Guardian, Monday February 8 2010
    • Meir Javedanfar
    's nuclear programme was started under the Shah. He wanted the bomb to transform into a Middle East superpower. For many Iranians, however, the real need for nuclear armament was most keenly felt after Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against Iranian soldiers and civilians during the eight-year war between the two countries in the 1980s. Iranians felt helpless,

    's nuclear programme was started under the Shah. He wanted the

  • Europe loses seat at top table

    • The Guardian, Monday February 8 2010
    • Ian Traynor
    Sitting in parkland in the shadow of the European parliament, the Bibliothèque Solvay is that rare thing in Brussels's dismal European quarter ? a pretty building. But when heads of government or state from 27 countries meet here on Thursday under their new president, Herman Van Rompuy of Belgium, they will have little time for the art nouveau fittings or for the old books lin

  • A furious row has broken out over the veracity of research into some aspects of global warming after a series of leaked emails and inaccurate predictions about melting glaciers. Is this a challenge to the consensus - or confected outrage from climate sceptics? Observer science editor Robin McKie and Benny Peiser of Lord Lawson's Global Warming Policy Foundation engage in a spirited and heated exchange about the merits of climate
  • • The Guardian, Sunday February 7 2010

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• 07 Feb 2010 21:00

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  • US and China: Tetchy twins

    • The Guardian, Monday February 8 2010
    • Editorial
    A year ago, China Daily gushed with upbeat epithets about the co-operation between the US and China. The relationship was already effective and smooth on trade, Taiwan and global warning. With two firm multilateralists, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, now in power, it would be positively strengthened and constructive, the official mouthpiece opined. How different the picture looks

    the lip service to multilateralism, China is more hostile to sanctions on than Russia. A nationalist China is, however, more tied into the

  • Sarah Palin fires up Tea Party faithful and hints at 2012 run

    • guardian.co.uk, Sunday February 7 2010
    • Ed Pilkington in Nashville
    Sarah Palin took the development of her own political brand to the next level with a speech to the first national gathering of Tea Party conservatives in Nashville in which she poured scorn on the first year of the Obama administration and set herself up as an alternative politician in the mould of Ronald Reagan. In a 40-minute speech to an audience of about 1,000 drawn from a

  • World news

    West alarmed as steps up enrichment of uranium stocks

    • The Guardian, Sunday February 7 2010
    • Julian Borger in Munich
    President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today ordered 's atomic energy organisation to begin enriching its uranium stockpile to a higher level, further raising fears over the country's nuclear ambitions. Ahmadinejad was shown on Iranian TV giving an order for the uranium, currently enriched to the level of 3.5%, to be further refined to 20% purity. State media said the work would st

    President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad today ordered 's atomic energy organisation to begin enriching its uranium stockpile to

  • Football

    USA captain had affair with team-mate's wife

    • Associated Press
    Fabio Capello is not the first international manager facing a dilemma over his captain in the build-up to a World Cup because of an issue relating the player's private life. It has emerged that the former United States coach Steve Sampson dropped John Harkes two months before France 98 because the midfielder was having an affair with the wife of a team-mate, Eric Wynalda. "The

    finished bottom of their group with no points from games against Germany, and Yugoslavia. Harkes was a member of the 1990 and 1994

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• 07 Feb 2010 03:15

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  • Robin McKie v Benny Peiser

    • The Observer, Sunday February 7 2010
    • Robin McKie and Benny Peiser
    Dear Robin Global warming science and climate policy face a severe and deepening crisis of credibility. The whole climate agenda is confronted by growing doubt and criticism, not least as a result of the so-called Climategate scandal, the Copenhagen fiasco and the revelations about the IPCC's alarmist claims based on unreliable sources. This crisis is shaking the scientific a

  • The Iranian revolution grinds to a halt on the eve of its anniversary

    • The Observer, Sunday February 7 2010
    • Robert Tait and Noushin Hoseiny
    For three decades, the image of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini arriving on Iranian soil to a tumultuous homecoming after 15 years in exile has been a centrepiece of 's revolutionary iconography. It is an event best captured in a famous picture of the late spiritual leader being gently led down the steps of an Air France jet by a man dressed as a pilot or an air steward. The p

    tumultuous homecoming after 15 years in exile has been a centrepiece of 's revolutionary iconography. It is an event best captured in a

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• 06 Feb 2010 10:04

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  • says 'final' deal on uranium exchange is near

    • The Guardian, Saturday February 6 2010
    's foreign minister claimed last night that his country was "approaching a final agreement" on a uranium exchange proposal, but hinted at conditions that may make it unacceptable to the west. Manouchehr Mottaki was talking about a deal made in principle last October to swap most of 's enriched uranium stockpile for fuel rods. The agreement appeared to unravel at the en

    's foreign minister claimed last night that his country was "approaching

  • US dismisses Iranian claims of nuclear agreement

    • guardian.co.uk, Saturday February 6 2010
    • David Batty and agencies
    Western officials have disputed claims by 's foreign minister that his country is "approaching a final agreement" in its nuclear programme. Manouchehr Mottaki told a security conference in Munich yesterday that was "serious" about making progress on a deal agreed in principle last October to swap most of its enriched uranium stockpile for fuel rods to use in nuclear p

    Western officials have disputed claims by 's foreign minister that his country is "approaching a final agreement"

  • Iran comes to Munich

    • guardian.co.uk, Saturday February 6 2010
    The Tehran government has a gift for the theatrical. The arrival of the foreign minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, at the Munich Security Conference was confirmed at the very last moment, and since he got here, Mottaki has held it in the palm of his hand. On Friday night he claimed a deal on 's uranium was close, but then added that it was up to to decide how much of its

    palm of his hand. On Friday night he claimed a deal on 's uranium was close, but then added that it was up

  • Corrections published on guardian.co.uk on 4 February 2010• A story - headlined Film review geek of Ain't It Cool News makes inaugural Forbes Web Celeb list - was deleted because it mistakenly featured Forbes's 2007 Web Celeb list instead of its 2010 list. A correction will also appear in the newspaper. Corrections published in the Guardian on 4 February 2010• In a package of

  • USA captain had affair with team-mate's wife

    • Associated Press
    Fabio Capello is not the first international manager facing a dilemma over his captain in the build-up to a World Cup because of an issue relating the player's private life. It has emerged that the former United States coach Steve Sampson dropped John Harkes two months before France 98 because the midfielder was having an affair with the wife of a team-mate, Eric Wynalda. "The

    finished bottom of their group with no points from games against Germany, Iran and Yugoslavia. Harkes was a member of the 1990 and 1994

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• 05 Feb 2010 14:51

  

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  • Peace with Syria still in Israel's sights

    • guardian.co.uk, Friday February 5 2010
    • Ian Black, Middle East editor
    It is hardly news that Avigdor Lieberman, Israel's rightwing foreign minister, is a bruiser who does not mince his words. But he still managed to provoke anger and dismay at home when he warned Syria's President Bashar al-Assad this week that he would see his regime collapse if he dared to attack the Jewish state. Lieberman was accused of "playing with fire" and "fanning the

    the Middle East. Syria and Israel are at odds over Lebanon and but they have not fought a fully fledged conflict since 1973

  • US in line of fire as China toughens up foreign policy

    • The Guardian, Friday February 5 2010
    • Julian Borger, diplomatic editor
    China signalled its intent to pursue a more assertive foreign policy, saying "a fifth of mankind" had a right to be heard, and stating its opposition to the west on a range of issues. The country's foreign minister, Yang Jiechi, threatened retaliation for American arms sales to Taiwan, and made it clear that China was prepared to stand alone among the permanent members of the

    the permanent members of the UN security council in opposing sanctions against . He insisted had not closed the door on negotiations over

  • Israel's dual reality

    • guardian.co.uk, Thursday February 4 2010
    • Aluf Benn
    Israel's image problem abroad is down to one issue: the stark and growing difference between how Israelis view their country, and how it is seen from outside. This explains the anger and insult that Israelis feel when they watch themselves on the BBC or CNN. It can't possibly be us, they protest, the networks must be biased and pro-Arab. From the outside, Israel is defined by

    followed. Today, few kids would bother to express similar public hatred towards 's president, Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, or the Hezbollah leader, Hasan Nasrallah. The

  • .ir: an ominous sign

    • guardian.co.uk, Thursday February 4 2010
    • Saeed Kamali Dehghan
    Since the disputed election last June, Ahmadinejad's government has sought different ways to further crack down on the internet in . Now, access to almost all reformist websites is blocked, including those of the reformist candidates, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi. Last week launched a national webmail service via iran.ir, intended to replace free foreign webm

    has sought different ways to further crack down on the internet in . Now, access to almost all reformist websites is blocked, including those

  • launches first online supermarket

    • guardian.co.uk, Thursday February 4 2010
    The internet has long been viewed with suspicion by 's Islamic regime: a drive to stifle dissent has seen online speeds slowed to a crawl, websites hacked and filtered, email accounts monitored and a special police force formed to detect internet "crime". But amid a technophobia that has intensified in the face of continuing opposition protests against President Mahmoud

    The internet has long been viewed with suspicion by 's Islamic regime: a drive to stifle dissent has seen online

  • World news

    Iran uranium deal: 'Optimism dashed because they went back on agreement'

    
    • guardian.co.uk, Thursday February 4 2010
    Audio (3m 41sec): Julian Borger on Iran's latest offer to export

  • From the Guardian

    Corrections and clarifications

    • The Guardian, Thursday February 4 2010
    • Corrections and clarifications column editor
    Corrections published on guardian.co.uk on 4 February 2010? A story - headlined Film review geek of Ain't It Cool News makes inaugural Forbes Web Celeb list - was deleted because it mistakenly featured Forbes's 2007 Web Celeb list instead of its 2010 list. A correction will also appear in the newspaper. Corrections published in the Guardian on 4 February 2010? In a package of

    to put missile batteries in four Gulf countries as a defence against , a summary box said that Patriot missiles stationed in Saudi Arabia

  • World news

    Dalai Lama to meet Barack Obama as US relations with China worsen

    • guardian.co.uk, Thursday February 4 2010
    • Ewen MacAskill in Washington and Tania Branigan in Beijing
    The sudden deterioration in US-Chinese relations is set to accelerate after the White House confirmed today that Barack Obama will meet the Dalai Lama in Washington later this month in defiance of Beijing. The White House spokesman, Robert Gibbs, did not set a date, but the Dalai Lama's secretary has said he will be in Washington on 17 and 18 February. Beijing claims Tibet is

    to support it over climate change at Copenhagen and on sanctions against . China specialists in Washington said today that the Obama administration had (...)

  • Chilcot needs to hear other voices

    • The Guardian, Thursday February 4 2010
    George Monbiot's moral, political and legal case against Blair is powerful (Mock this campaign if you like, but how else can Blair be held to account?, 2 February). It would, however, become unanswerable if we revisit the fallacious assumption that the only choice was between Iraqi misery under Saddam or the temporary misery of his efficient removal. But not only has the

    (...)to publicly deny every lesson of Iraq by encouraging military action against shows why he should be arrested, not just for what he (...)

  • World news

    Guardian Daily: Scientists 'speak' to man in vegetative state

    
    • guardian.co.uk, Thursday February 4 2010
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• 02 Feb 2010 19:46

  

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  • Which clubs are named after modes of transport?

    • guardian.co.uk, Wednesday February 3 2010
    • John Ashdown
    "In the Highland League, there is a team called Inverurie Loco Works," notes Phil Middleton. "Are there any other clubs that have modes of transport in their names? The only other team we can think of is Vauxhall Motors." Well, we've got: Trains ...The Knowledge does love a bit of trainspotting and there are plenty of teams who can trace their existence back to rail yards. Ho

    Motor Bus FC and the rather brilliantly-named Tractor Sazi FC of are just a few. Slightly more tenuously Shinnik Yaroslavl of Russia,

  • Defence spending that we cannot afford

    • The Guardian, Tuesday February 2 2010
    The US military/industrial complex is on the move once more (US raises stakes on by sending in ships and missiles, 1 February) as President Barack Obama discloses that he is deploying Patriot missiles in Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait, and keeping two warships equipped with the Aegis ­ballistic missiles system in the Gulf capable of shooting down Iranian

    industrial complex is on the move once more (US raises stakes on by sending in ships and missiles, 1 February) as President Barack

  • No more war games

    • guardian.co.uk, Tuesday February 2 2010
    There are ominous rumblings and noises off about grave matters of war and peace ? yet few of our politicians seem to know or care what do about it. In the next few hours we are to have the new green paper on defence, security and foreign policy ? a guide to where Britain is in the world and where our leaders wish to take us over the next 10 years. As if cued by Tony Blair's gr

    being warned of a new threat of confrontation and possibly conflict with . Barack Obama has ordered Patriot missile batteries to be sent to

  • dismisses US missile shield as 'puppet show'

    • guardian.co.uk, Tuesday February 2 2010
    • Matthew Weaver and agencies
    today dismissed the US buildup of a missile shield in the Gulf as a "puppet show" as details emerged of an unsuccessful US missile test designed to simulate an Iranian attack amid a tense standoff between the two countries. The US has sent ships and missiles to the region in what officials said was an attempt to deter an attack by on US allies. Iranian officials cri

    today dismissed the US buildup of a missile shield in the

  • Israel debates over its self-defence

    • guardian.co.uk, Tuesday February 2 2010
    • Uri Dromi
    When the Goldstone report condemning Israel was issued last September, I wrote in the Jewish Chronicle that Israel should have considered "whether the policy of not co-operating with outside investigation is wise. Alternately, a vigorous independent Israeli investigation could have made Judge Goldstone redundant, or at least marginal". Israelis are still arguing vigorously ove

    the world and at the same time allows one of its members, , to threaten to destroy another member state, Israel, and even make

  • Iran accuses Israel of killing Hamas commander

    
    • guardian.co.uk, Tuesday February 2 2010
    Video (53sec): Tehran backs claim by Hamas that Israeli agents assassinated Mahmoud al-Mabhouh in Dubai hotel room last month

    the world and at the same time allows one of its members, , to threaten to destroy another member state, Israel, and even make

  • The 'Party of Reagan'

    • guardian.co.uk, Tuesday February 2 2010
    • Michael Tomasky
    I've been thinking about this subject a good bit lately: today's wingers are all Reagan this and Reagan that. The name just has all kinds of talismanic qualities on the right. But mostly it means: tried-and-true conservative, unbending to the naysayers and nabobs of negativism. But if you look at Reagan's actual policies, today's conservatives would throw him out on his ear. A

    fast. Plank number 7 calls for "effective [read military] action to eliminate" and North Korea's nuclear programs. But Reagan condemned Israel's

  • Politics

    MPs grill Gordon Brown - live

    • guardian.co.uk, Tuesday February 2 2010
    • Andrew Sparrow
    12.30pm: When Tony Blair gave evidence to the Iraq inquiry, more than 3,000 members of the public applied for a ticket. When Gordon Brown gives evidence to the liaision committee - the body made up of the chairmen and women of all the Commons select committees - public interest isn't quite so high. They don't need to hold a ballot, and there's usually space for any member of

  • Egyptian billionaire poised to join Lebedev in Independent deal

    • guardian.co.uk, Tuesday February 2 2010
    • Luke Harding in Moscow
    Russian tycoon Alexander Lebedev is understood to be attempting to bring a wealthy Egyptian partner into his proposed takeover of the Independent newspapers, MediaGuardian can reveal. Sources close to the deal said the owner of the London Evening Standard was trying to persuade the Sawiris family to join him in his latest UK media venture. Lebedev, a former KGB spy, has told

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    America is broke, and needs its old friends

    • guardian.co.uk, Tuesday February 2 2010
    • Simon Tisdall
    Barack Obama's $3.8tn budget is a vastly complex affair. But one fact stands out plainly: in layman's terms, America is broke. The federal government's outgoings will exceed income by about $1.6tn this year; over the next 10 years combined, the predicted gap is $8.5tn. Given the partisan impasse on Capitol Hill over spending cuts and higher taxes, there is no reason to assume

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• 01 Feb 2010 09:33

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  • Tony Blair and the lessons of the Chilcot inquiry

    • The Guardian, Monday February 1 2010
    On at least two crucial points, the Chilcot inquiry allowed Tony Blair to get away with murder (Righteous, responsible but no regrets: Blair's day in the dock, 30 January). First, Blair continued to claim an essential link between Iraq and 9/11. It is a matter of record, however, that just a few hours after the 9/11 attacks, the then US defence secretary, Donald

    the opportunity to also make clear that he favoured military action against . In the course of his testimony he mentioned no less

  • : Reverting to Bush

    • The Guardian, Monday February 1 2010
    In one of the clearest statements of US intentions towards , the defence secretary, Robert Gates, talked on a visit to Iraq in December about the inherent unpredictability of war. If they had learned anything from the past six years in Iraq, he said, it was that. Mr Gates said that military strikes would only delay 's nuclear programme by about "two or three years"

    In one of the clearest statements of US intentions towards , the defence secretary, Robert Gates, talked on a visit to Iraq

  • Guardian Daily: US deployment raises tension with Iran

    
    • guardian.co.uk, Monday February 1 2010
    Audio (15m 5sec): Obama toughens line with Tehran; Ashcroft under pressure over tax status; and Amazon v Macmillan, in our daily audio show with Jon

  • Gulf confrontation: 'The US is prepared to move decisively against Iran'

    
    • guardian.co.uk, Monday February 1 2010
    Audio (1m 47sec): Chris McGreal explains why the US is deploying a missile shield in the Gulf to protect allies from

  • US-Russia arms control treaty talks resume

    • guardian.co.uk, Monday February 1 2010
    • Luke Harding in Moscow and Daniel Nasaw in Washington
    Negotiations over a new arms control treaty between the US and Russia resumed in Geneva today amid growing criticism of Barack Obama's conciliatory policy towards the Kremlin from human rights groups and a newly emboldened Republican party. Obama and Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev, indicated last week that a successor agreement to the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (S

    failed to realise many of his major foreign policy goals, including on and the Middle East, with his "reset" strategy towards Russia yet

  • Missile shield in Gulf: 'The US has a long history of disputes with Iran'

    
    • guardian.co.uk, Monday February 1 2010
    Audio (1m 55sec): Simon Tisdall on the likely Iranian response to the deployment of a US missile shield in the

  • World news

    Chinese media accuses US of 'cold war thinking' over Taiwan arms deal

    • guardian.co.uk, Monday February 1 2010
    • Tania Branigan in Beijing and agencies
    Chinese state media have lambasted the US arms deal with Taiwan, turning up the pressure over the $6.4bn (£4bn) agreement. Beijing's reaction to the package ? which includes Black Hawk helicopters, Patriot missiles and mine-hunter ships ? was described by one official newspaper as its toughest in three decades of sales. It comes as the bilateral relationship faces other strain

    warning that China will push back against new sanctions on its ally , which it was already reluctant to support, and will be less

  • The sanctions dilemma

    • guardian.co.uk, Monday February 1 2010
    • James Denselow
    The stakes were dramatically raised in the Middle East at the weekend by news that the US is deploying defensive missile systems throughout the Gulf. Writing in the Guardian, Robert Tait warned that the deployment "may strengthen radical elements in the revolutionary guards". It is for this reason that President Obama should realise the importance of balancing bigger sticks

    crashed last year en route to Armenia, killing all 168 on board. has a poor aviation safety record, with numerous crashes since US

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    US raises stakes on by sending in ships and missiles

    • The Guardian, Sunday January 31 2010
    • Chris McGreal in Washington
    Tension between the US and heightened dramatically today with the disclosure that Barack Obama is deploying a missile shield to protect American allies in the Gulf from attack by Tehran. The US is dispatching Patriot defensive missiles to four countries ? Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait ? and keeping two ships in the Gulf capable of shooting down Iranian m

    Tension between the US and heightened dramatically today with the disclosure that Barack Obama is deploying

  • World news

    Fears that US missiles move may be exploited by 's hardliners

    • The Guardian, Sunday January 31 2010
    • Robert Tait
    greeted news of the US plans to station missile defences in neighbouring Arab states with a stony official silence today. While the development went unreported by the two official news agencies, IRNA and Fars, the closest thing to a government response was a comment from a hardline MP, Hassan Sobhani-niya, that the matter would "probably" be discussed by the

    greeted news of the US plans to station missile defences in

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• 31 Jan 2010 09:42

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  • Tony Blair sold the Iraq war on his judgment. His judgment was wrong

    • guardian.co.uk, Sunday January 31 2010
    The Chilcot inquiry summoned Tony Blair last week to establish facts for the historical record. But Mr Blair turned up to win history's approval, its gratitude even. The result was pure theatre; the fluent former prime minister was given the stage and the cues. He performed. The questioning was neither forensic nor consistent enough to disturb Mr Blair's composure, let alone f

  • Blair v Chilcot. No contest: we and the truth are the losers

    • The Observer, Sunday January 31 2010
    • Andrew Rawnsley
    There was a moment during Tony Blair's appearance before the Iraq inquiry – it came in the stretch when his limp inquisitors were fumbling an attempt to pin him down on the legality of the war – that the former prime minister gave them a knowing smirk and remarked: "I was a lawyer myself. I wrote many opinions." As if we really needed any reminding. He occupied Number 10 for 1

    his old lines about Iraq and delivering a few fresh ones about which he had scripted to command the attention of that

  • US boosts missile presence in Gulf as warning to Iran

    • guardian.co.uk, Sunday January 31 2010
    • James Sturcke and agencies
    The Obama administration is intensifying pressure on by increasing its missile defences in the Middle East to defend against potential missile strikes in the region by Tehran, it emerged today. The US military has boosted the capability of land-based Patriot defensive missiles in several Arab nations in the Gulf, and one official told the Associated Press the navy was a

    The Obama administration is intensifying pressure on Iran by increasing its missile defences in the Middle East to defend (...)

  • Iran's green shoots

    • guardian.co.uk, Sunday January 31 2010
    • Gearóid Ó Cuinn and Saoirse Roche
    A popular football programme on Iranian television became the unlikely conduit for a protest by the pro-democracy "green" movement earlier this month. Viewers of the "90" show were asked: "What caused the recent decline of the Iranian national football team?" ? and invited to vote for one of three answers, with the possibility of winning a prize. The obviously correct answe

    (...)Iranian Football Federation, Mohammad Dadkan, who made a rare public swipe at Iran's current presidential administration. "I am proud of three things in (...)

  • Comment is free

    "Blair lied, thousands died," read the placards. The truth is, he always said what he believed, over and over again, in parliament, in press conferences and to anyone who asked. "It's not about a lie, a deceit or a conspiracy or a deception," he says – though we shall never know how much he deceived himself. Conviction on stilts remains – in Iraq things did get better. His

  • China fumes at US arms sale to Taiwan

    • The Observer, Saturday January 30 2010
    • Tania Branigan in Beijing and Paul Harris in New York
    China and the US are set for renewed confrontation after Beijing warned of serious repercussions following Washington's announcement of a $6.4bn (£4bn) arms deal with Taiwan. Sanctions were imposed on US companies involved in the deal, and in one of a flurry of unsually strong statements condemning the American decision the Foreign Ministry said: "It will be un­avoidable that

    (...)deal, and whether it will hinder the prospect of new sanctions against Iran at the United Nations Security Council. Despite China's reluctance to (...)

  • World news

    The Chinese government has announced retaliatory measures over a planned sale of advanced US weaponry to Taiwan. China's defence ministry said it would suspend military exchanges with the US, impose sanctions on companies selling arms to Taiwan and review wider co-operation on international issues. The confrontation over the $6.3bn (£4bn) arms sale to Taiwan – a self-go

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• 30 Jan 2010 07:47

  

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  • Tony Blair at Iraq inquiry - the ghost that came back to life

    • The Guardian, Saturday January 30 2010
    • Simon Jenkins
    This was the big one. Yet as we sat down to the climax of the Chilcot inquiry, in walked a ghost. Its muscles were taut, its eyes bloodshot, its tan implausible, its mouth unsmiling. The hand visibly shook when pouring water. Tony Blair looked awful. Outside they were chanting war criminal and liar. Blair had been smuggled in through the Queen Elizabeth II centre's "prisoner's

  • Blair at the Iraq inquiry: No regrets

    • The Guardian, Saturday January 30 2010
    • Editorial
    There is a planet, some way removed from the real one, on which Tony Blair lives. He invited the Chilcot inquiry to join him on it yesterday. On this alternative earth, certainties dissolve and falsehoods become truths. Facts are transformed into opinions and judgments turn into evidence. Success and failure are both the same. On this strange planet, the invasion of Iraq was

    which side you are on. His target was Iraq, now it is , as he freely and repeatedly said yesterday. Tony Blair is not

  • Blair was wrong. He still is. But let's not fetishise the UN

    • The Guardian, Saturday January 30 2010
    • Polly Toynbee
    "Blair lied, thousands died," read the placards. The truth is, he always said what he believed, over and over again, in parliament, in press conferences and to anyone who asked. "It's not about a lie, a deceit or a conspiracy or a deception," he says ? though we shall never know how much he deceived himself. Conviction on stilts remains ? in Iraq things did get better. His

  • Comment is free

    Let Iran have its own revolution

    • guardian.co.uk, Saturday January 30 2010
    • Mahmood Delkhasteh
    Since the late 19th century, almost every generation of Iranians has seen at least one major upheaval or revolution. The first revolution for democracy in the Middle East took place in in 1905, at a time when European countries (excepting the UK) were under various forms of dictatorship. No country has experienced so much constant turmoil and political unrest in the past

    (...)The first revolution for democracy in the Middle East took place in in 1905, at a time when European countries (excepting the UK) (...)

  • Tony Blair accused of putting war with Iran on the electoral agenda

    • The Observer, Saturday January 30 2010
    • David Batty
    Tony Blair has been accused of warmongering spin for claiming that western powers might be forced to invade because it poses as serious a threat as Saddam Hussein. Sir Richard Dalton, a former British ambassador to Iran, accused Blair of trying to make confrontation with Iran an electoral issue after the former prime minister repeatedly singled out its Islamic regime as

    (...)warmongering spin for claiming that western powers might be forced to invade Iran because it poses as serious a threat as Saddam Hussein. Sir (...)

  • China retaliates over US arms sales to Taiwan

    • guardian.co.uk, Saturday January 30 2010
    • Daniel Nasaw in Washington, David Batty and agencies
    The Chinese government has announced retaliatory measures over a planned sale of advanced US weaponry to Taiwan. China's defence ministry said it would suspend military exchanges with the US, impose sanctions on companies selling arms to Taiwan and review wider co-operation on international issues. The confrontation over the $6.3bn (£4bn) arms sale to Taiwan ? a self-go

    (...)could hinder Washington's efforts to win Chinese support for sanctions against Iran over its nuclear programme and exacerbate disputes over the standoff between (...)

  • 8.23am: Tony Blair's appearance at the Iraq inquiry today is one of the most eagerly-awaited political events of the early, possibly one of the most eagerly-awaited events of the last 10 years. But exactly what sort of event is it going to be? A war crimes trial? No. Sir John Chilcot has made it clear that no one is on trial at the Iraq inquiry and there is no evidence, from t

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• 29 Jan 2010 05:17

  

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  • State of the union: Obama's reality check

    • The Guardian, Friday January 29 2010
    • Editorial
    Barack Obama is a good man, and by the standards of his predecessor, an intellectually honest one. He told a Baptist congregation in Washington recently that there were times when change was so painfully slow that he had to confront his doubts. But Mr Obama's probity has low political currency today. Having a US president who is not George W Bush may come as an immense relief

  • Dictator-lit: The poetry of Ayatollah Khomeini

    • guardian.co.uk, Friday January 29 2010
    • Daniel Kalder
    The fourth instalment in an occasional series on books written by some of the world's most notorious dictators. The author's goal is to subject himself to as much tyrant prose as he can bear, reporting back on his findings until the will to live deserts him. Perhaps the most famous literary critic of the 20th century, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (1902-1989) was renowned for hi

  • Tony Blair to tell Chilcot inquiry: war stopped Saddam building WMDs

    • The Guardian, Friday January 29 2010
    • Patrick Wintour, political editor
    Tony Blair is today expected to deliver a robust defence of his decision to take ­Britain into war with Iraq, arguing that even though Saddam Hussein did not possess weapons of mass destruction he could have been emboldened to build them had the UK and US backed down from the threat of military force. In the most eagerly awaited session of the Chilcot inquiry so far, Blair wil

    written dossiers. ? Has said he did not foresee the degree to which would seek to arm the Shia community or the extent to

  • Tony Blair at Iraq inquiry ? live

    • guardian.co.uk, Friday January 29 2010
    • Andrew Sparrow
    12.35pm: Freedman says support for war was "moving away" in the security council. Would it not have been a good time to "take stock"? He says that David Manning and Jeremy Greenstock both told the inquiry that the inspectors should have been given more time. Blair says he thought he could have got the nine votes necessary for a security council vote in favour of a second resol

  • UK news

    I believed beyond doubt that Iraq had WMD, Tony Blair tells inquiry

    • guardian.co.uk, Friday January 29 2010
    • Stephen Bates
    Tony Blair today robustly defended his decision to take Britain to war against Saddam Hussein in 2003 because he believed "beyond doubt" that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. In three hours of examination at the Chilcot inquiry this morning, the former prime minister insisted the joint intelligence committee's assessments were consistently strong that Iraq had a WMD progr

    terrorist organisations and states that will sponsor them. There are those states, in particular, which are linked to this extreme and misguided view

  • UK news

    Chilcot inquiry: panel member claims antisemitism after impartiality queried

    • Chris Tryhorn
    Sir Martin Gilbert has attacked articles in the Independent and Independent on Sunday that he claims questioned his inclusion on the Iraq inquiry's panel because he is Jewish. Gilbert, a historian and biographer of Churchill, used an interview with an Israeli radio station to describe the querying of his appointment as "just appalling". He was referring to two articles publis

    from the fact that as far as I can see Israel regarded Iran as the greater danger in March 2003, it's just appalling.

  • Blair's blind faith in intelligence

    • Hans Blix
    The UN path on to which the US was gently eased in 2002 by the UK and Americans such as Colin Powell was certainly preferable to unilateral US armed action against Iraq. However, for the UK to join the approach entailed a gamble: if inspectors were admitted, weapons found and destroyed, success could be declared. In the scenario that both the US and UK seemed to think more

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