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The sorry business | Peter Preston
For all the talk of privacy and principles, Tiger Woods and co are driven by value rather than values Separate the performance – hangdog, lip-trembling, glum going...
Rawnsley: Iraq broke Blair's spirit
In this exclusive extract from The End of the Party, a richly detailed history of Labour in government since 2001, the Observer\'s chief political commentator, Andrew Rawnsley , discloses how Tony Blair became so demoralised in the spring of 2004 as Iraq descended into chaos that he almost quit Downing Street. Meanwhile, a seething Gordon Brown w...
Letters: Control of secret evidence
Letters Today, the House of Commons will debate whether the control order system will be renewed from another year. We wish to express serious concerns about its renewal. Control orders constitute permanent punishment without trial, whereby the innocent can be placed under house arrest on the basis of suspicion and secret intelligence. Control orders also fail to protect the public from individuals who may be genuinely dangerous. Those who may wish to do us harm may easily remove their electronic tags and abscond. The regime has a severe...