Chris Ames
Articles by Chris Ames
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UK Politics
End to rough sleepers estimate
- 19 November 2008
The commitment to end street homelessness in England “for good” could mark a landmark. But with virtually no new resources and few new ideas, just how it will be achieved?
UK Politics
UK faces Heathrow legal action
- 12 November 2008
- 1 comment
Controversial plans to build a third runway at Heathrow may fall foul of EU pollution regulations with Commissioner Stavros Dimas vowing to take legal action
Environment
Heathrow plan attacked
- 29 October 2008
- 9 comments
Amid growing rumours of a Cabinet split over Heathrow expansion ex-culture secretary turned Environment Agency chief Chris Smith criticises plans to defer new pollution limits
Economy
Flint: Property boom unsustainable
- 04 July 2008
- 5 comments
Housing Minister Caroline Flint concedes the booming housing market that Britain has enjoyed for more than a decade is "unsustainable"
Politics
Was it Campbell?
- 07 May 2008
- 3 comments
Tony Blair's former chief of spin, Alastair Campbell, may after all have sexed-up the notorious 45 minutes WMD claim when the case for invading Iraq was being made
Politics
Iraq dossier - watchdog ruling
- 24 April 2008
- 2 comments
The government is attacked as "dodgy" after a ruling that criticises the way in which author of the September 2002 Iraq dossier has effectively been allowed anonymity
UK Politics
Now, not later
- 25 March 2008
- 14 comments
Gordon Brown should announce a credible inquiry into the Iraq war before he is forced into one
Politics
Iraq, Israel and WMD dossier
- 21 February 2008
- 57 comments
A scribbled reference to Israel in the margin of a withheld draft of the Iraq dossier is revealed. Chris Ames who has doggedly pursued the government on the issue responds
Politics
Secret Iraq dossier published
- 18 February 2008
- 8 comments
The government has been forced to publish the secret first draft of the Iraq WMD dossier written by a Foreign Office spin doctor, reports Chris Ames
