Jon Snow
Will the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war ever be published?
Even John Chilcot can never have anticipated the years of toil, obfuscation and delay that would surround his efforts in trying to find the truth about the Iraq war.
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Blair memo leaked: where is the Chilcot Inquiry?
In the leaked memo from 2002 Colin Powell told President Bush then Prime Minister Tony Blair “will be with us”.
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FactCheck: what do we learn from the Blair-Bush letters?
Letters written by Tony Blair for the eyes of the US president only have now been declassified. What do they tell us about the Iraq War?
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FactCheck: what will Chilcot say about Tony Blair?
Tony Blair’s reputation lies in the hands of the Chilcot Inquiry. What will it say about the man who took Britain to war in 2003?
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Jon Snow
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Gary Gibbon
Iraq Inquiry inches closer
After months of deadlock, finally there’s some progress on the journey towards publication of the Chilcot report.
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Gary Gibbon
A tale of two inquiries
At the start of the Leveson inquiry into media standards, Channel 4 News Political Editor Gary Gibbon looks at the progress made by Sir John Chilcot’s Iraq inquiry.
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Chilcot's last stand – before his inquiry goes quiet
Channel 4 News Iraq Inquiry blogger looks ahead to David Miliband and Bill Jeffrey’s evidence.
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Gary Gibbon
Iraq inquiry told it cannot publish Blair-Bush letters
The Cabinet Secretary, Sir Gus O’Donnell, has sent a big fat “no” to the Iraq inquiry’s request to publish quotations from the private letters that Tony Blair sent to President Bush.
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Gary Gibbon
Iraq inquiry: dealing with the law and Lord Goldsmith
Channel 4 News political editor Gary Gibbon examines the way Lord Goldsmith was questioned by the Iraq inquiry.
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Gary Gibbon
There will be wry smiles as Chilcot wades into political waters
Sir John Chilcot’s decision to take evidence from the prime minister not many weeks shy of a general election reminds you that it’s not just the politicians who feel on trial here, writes Gary Gibbon.
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Iraq inquiry: green-lighting a pre-election session for Brown
The Iraq inquiry blogger looks back on Sir John Chilcot’s previous statements about when Gordon Brown would give evidence to the Iraq inqury.
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The grandest of grand nabobs at a wintry QEII centre
The Iraq inquiry blogger looks forward to the day’s events
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Campbell at the Iraq inquiry – half-way thoughts
The Iraq inquiry blogger gives his observations 90 minutes in to Alastair Campbell’s evidence to the Chilcot inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Iraq between 2001 and 2009.
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Iraq inquiry (English and Dutch versions)
Channel 4 News Iraq inquiry blogger writes that as the Iraq inquiry gears up for tomorrow’s appearance by Alastair Campbell, the inquiry’s Dutch equivalent prepares to release its own report on the Netherlands’ involvement in Iraq.
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End of phase one – the narrative of the war
The Iraq inquiry blogger looks back at what had been learned from “phase 1” of the Chilcot inquiry into the 2003 Iraq war.