Brian Barder's website

The strange experience of being quoted on Suez by two distinguished authors.

ID cards and the attack on (harmless) double identities.

Principal casualties of the Hutton inquiry so far.

More questions on the future of Iraq. Will the US accept the implications of sharing authority with the UN?

Unanswered questions about how we got into this mess in Iraq

The traumas involved in moving from one’s sizeable home of 26 years to a smaller one unable to accommodate a lifetime’s detritus. Never again!

Why the malicious media attacks on Ulrika Jonsson when reliable witnesses testify to her charm and decency?

Tom Kelly and the Walter Mitty faux pas: couldn’t have happened if the old rules governing disclosures to the media had been observed.

Was the government’s public case for joining the Americans in invading and occupying Iraq firmly based on reliable information in its possession, or did the government dress it up, embroider or otherwise misrepresent it in order to gain public support for the war?

The affair of The Kellys, Tom and David. Likeliest scenario: Dr Kelly did make allegations as reported by Gilligan, but was forced to deny it by threats to his job and possibly pension. Unfortunate that this affair diverts attention from more serious questions about the real reasons for the attack on Iraq.