More on the “sewers are flooding over everywhere” story. One of Gordon Brown’s most trusted financial advisers, and deputy head of the Financial Services Authority — which oversees banks– … [Keep reading >>]

This on Thursday:

“The BBC has defended a decision not to air a TV fund-raising appeal for Gaza, saying it wanted to avoid compromising public confidence in its impartiality.

“It said a … [Keep reading >>]

Senior CIA officers could be put on trial in Britain after it emerged last night that the Attorney General is to investigate allegations that a British resident held in Guantanamo … [Keep reading >>]

Writing in the Guardian, Peter Wilby reminds readers that our preoccupation with eliminating ‘evil’ has led us into dangerous and even reckless policies: “Romanticising the second world war has led … [Keep reading >>]

The British media are having a jolly good time dissecting the implications of Prince Harry’s pullout from Afghanistan. The Guardian’s George Galloway puts one of the more enlightened spins … [Keep reading >>]

This is the first of three Guardian U.K. excerpts of Jonathan Steele’s new book, Defeat: How They Lost Iraq, which looks at how Britain went to war unbriefed, unprepared and … [Keep reading >>]

The Guardian’s Jonathan Steele is calling for a formal inquiry into mistakes in Iraq other than the failures over WMD: “There has been no inquiry into the equally important issue … [Keep reading >>]

The BBC’s Paul Wood provides this assessment as the British turn over formal control of the city: “The British are not handing over a Basra at peace. For ordinary Basrawis … [Keep reading >>]

There is growing concern (which was evident to me yesterday) that parliamentarians in Stormont are becoming increasingly disconnected from life on the streets of Ulster. Here, the Belfast … [Keep reading >>]

As the conflicting parties prepare to formally sign a power sharing agreement in Washington, Belfast’s News Letter is reporting that some Union groups are preparing to form a new legislative … [Keep reading >>]

It seems that folks here will often seize opportunities to inflame divisions rather than heal them. In a simple act of negotiating an end to a potentially disruptive parade, … [Keep reading >>]

Writing in the Guardian, Phil Shiner reminds readers of the detention policies used by the British which were intended more to appease the US than to affirm the Geneva Accords: … [Keep reading >>]