Would you break the Chatham House rules?

Posted by on Nov 25, 2006 in updates | 18 comments If you are attending a conference on freedom of information, secrecy, truth, lies and political spin, then the last thing you expect is for the Chatham House rules to be invoked. And, much to my astonishment, that is what happened yesterday. Could there be any greater irony? I challenged the reason for this during the question session. I pointed out that it didn’t make sense to discuss...
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Hans Blix urges Blair to rethink Trident weapons

Posted by on Nov 25, 2006 in Uncategorized | 5 comments Dr Hans Blix has urged Tony Blair to reconsider the UK’s future commitment to Trident nuclear weapons. The chairman of The Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission believes that they are not necessary, that they have had their day, that we should be “walking away from it”. I spoke to him at the end of a conference in Cambridge debating freedom of information, the use of...
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