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Sun
73, 81, 94, 97, 98, 99, 100, 105, 115, 153, 160, 211, 249, 291, 297, 394, 404, 561, 562, 667;
see also
Kavanagh, Trevor; Yelland, David

Sunday Express
243

Sunday Mirror
669

Sunday Telegraph
84, 85, 163, 229, 263, 301, 387, 599, 600, 603–4, 607, 630, 664

Sunday Times
85, 113, 175, 176, 180, 225, 262, 283, 354, 365, 366, 385, 403, 503, 592, 599, 667

Sunil (Indian valet) 39–40, 41

Sylvester, Rachel 232

Synnott, Sir Hilary 68, 132

Syria 527, 548;
see also
Assad, Bashar al-

Tait, Richard 355, 406

Taliban, the xi, xii, 7, 11, 14, 15, 17; and OBL xv, 5, 6, 11, 12, 17, 19, 23, 28, 36
n
, 38, 40, 48, 50, 93; and US ultimatum 23, 24; war declared on 33, 37, 43, 56; brutality 30; invites film crews 51; shows journalists US destruction 53–4; and BBC reporting 61; and effects of war on 54, 56, 58, 61, 67, 68 69
n
, 70, 71, 77, 78; too much focus on their claims 78, 80, 83; running out of money 80, 84; defeated 88; and release of aid workers 89; gives ‘no surrender’ press conference 93; besieged by Northern Alliance 94–5
and n
; reports of defections 102; US treatment of prisoners 140

Tapper, Jonathan 153
n

Tatham, Michael 165

Tavistock Times
195

Tavner, Terry 125

Taylor, Ann 598, 634, 646, 647, 654, 659

Taylor, Jan 269

Taylor, Lauren 457

TBWA (advertising agency) 205–6

Teare, Pam 633

Tebbit, Kevin 8, 631, 632, 633, 648, 657, 687

Tebbit, Norman 149

Templeton, Robert 535

Tenet, George 55, 278, 442

Thatcher, Margaret 11, 23, 30, 60, 138, 149, 219, 266, 275, 276, 425
n
, 656

Third Way 242, 243, 251, 317, 641–2; conference (2003) 643, 644

Thompson, Tommy 55

Thomson, Robert 180, 228, 249

Thorning-Schmidt, Helle 112

Times, The
80, 93, 99, 140, 159, 165, 190, 212, 213, 216, 217, 223, 224, 228, 239, 246, 254, 263, 271, 335, 419, 472, 538, 544, 560, 561, 562, 581, 602, 624, 635, 657, 667, 676, 680; magazine article on AC 452, 485, 563; AC’s marathon articles 428, 433, 457, 547, 548, 587;
see also
Miles, Alice;
Sunday Times
; Webster, Phil

Times Educational Supplement
263

Tokyo: Afghanistan reconstruction summit (2002) 134, 142

Tomlinson, Sir Michael: A-level inquiry 309

Tour de France (2002) 281–2

Toynbee, Polly 88, 140, 400

Trades Union Congress: TB speeches xii, xiii, 3, 4, 7 (2001), 297–8
and n
, 299, 300, 303, 310, 311, 312, 313–14 (2002)

Transec 362

Transport and General Workers’ Union 312

Treasury Select Committee (TSC) 560; report 554–5

Trickett, Jon 560

Triesman, David 106, 113, 182, 228, 231, 262, 399, 485, 577, 627

Trimble, David 251, 323, 474, 540, 659

Trimdon Labour Club 148, 208, 292

Truman, Harry, US President xxii

TSC
see
Treasury Select Committee

TUC 364, 371, 372, 375, 380

Turkey 199, 278, 294, 331, 393, 394
and n
, 454, 474, 487, 504, 520, 643

Turnbull, Andrew 307, 324, 329, 338, 340, 351, 388, 478, 489, 546, 570, 612, 615

Turner, Adair 310

Tutwiler, Margaret 560, 561, 562–3, 574, 586

unions 3, 156, 157, 175, 261–2, 264, 273, 277, 280, 287, 298, 322, 365, 371, 373, 374, 376
n
, 380, 438, 454, 637, 644;
see also
Fire Brigade Union; GMB; Trades Union Congress; UNISON

UNISON 158, 216

United Airlines: Flight 93 18
and n
; Flight 587 87
and n

United Nations xii, 9, 89, 204, 279, 284, 285, 452, 523, 524, 525, 536, 538, 539; General Assembly (UNGA) 286, 291, 300; Oil for Food Programme 526
and n
; Security Council (UNSC) 10, 400, 459, 472, 473;
see also below

United Nations Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) 183, 184 198, 204
n
, 278, 287, 289–97
passim
, 300, 301, 302, 304, 306, 316, 319, 321, 325, 326, 331, 333, 354, 355, 357; second resolution 363, 416, 431, 437–42
passim
, 467, 471, 478, 479, 482, 491, 493; Resolution 1441 438, 440, 441, 452, 461, 463, 464–5, 467, 482, 487, 488, 491, 493, 500–1, 503

university funding
see
education

UNMOVIC (UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission) 293, 450, 457

UNSC
see
United Nations Security Council

UNSCRs see United Nations Security Council Resolutions

Uzbekistan 21, 24, 50, 56

Vajpayee, Atal Bihari 26–7, 35, 40, 41, 87, 129, 130, 131, 132, 137, 327, 591–2

Vallance, Iain 230, 231

Vanity Fair
505, 563

Veness, David 454, 455

Vereker, Sir John 54, 61, 330

Verveer, Melanne 614

Villepin, Dominique de 444, 475, 494, 498, 506, 511, 515, 540, 543

Vine, Jeremy 362

Virley, Simon 92, 208, 212, 215

Wade, Rebekah 161, 262, 273, 362, 416, 417, 433, 594, 610, 625, 649, 667

Wadley, Veronica 145, 663

Wakeham, Lord John 86, 122

Walker, Carole 112

Walker, General Sir Michael (CDS) 598

Wall Street Journal
437, 584

Wall, General Peter 587

Wall, Sir Stephen 223, 229, 344, 402, 426, 445, 564

Wallis, Neil 142, 149, 150, 153

Walters, Simon 216, 221

Wanless, Sir Derek 96, 97, 541, 542

Ward, Lucy 237

Warren, Pam 241–2, 242
n
, 246

Washington Post
105

Watton, Lt Colonel Timothy 628
and n

Watts, Susan 654, 657, 673, 685
n

Waugh, Paul 669

Webster, Phil 228, 301, 483, 575, 658, 680

Wechsberg, Anna 47, 134, 329, 428

Wells, Bill 683

Wells, Holly 282
and n

Welsh Labour Party conference, Swansea: TB’s speech (2003) 470, 472

Wembley Stadium 115

West, Admiral Sir Alan 418, 522

Western Mail
163

Westlake, Martin, and St John, Ian:
Kinnock
95

What the Papers Say
awards (2002) 401

White, Mike xi, 237, 242, 267, 278, 399, 405, 601

Whiting, Roy 109
n

Whittington Hospital, London: Rose Addis case 147–8, 149

Whittow, Hugh 151

Wicks, Malcolm 606

Widdecombe, Ann 692

Wilder, Thornton:
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
22
n

Wilkinson, David 347, 418

Wilkinson, Jim 68, 69, 72, 78, 80, 81, 84, 95, 146, 172

Willcocks, Lt General Sir Michael (Black Rod): and TB/PCC complaint 212
and n
, 213, 215, 216, 228, 230, 238, 239, 240, 244, 246–7, 249, 250, 252, 253, 254; AC meets 363

William, Prince 349
n
, 615
and n

Williams, Gareth 495, 581, 612

Williams, John 293, 297, 305, 374, 399, 408, 465, 620

Williams, Rowan, Archbishop of Canterbury 267–8, 400, 470

Williams, Venus 620

Wills, Michael 240, 604, 606, 644
and n

Wilson, Ben 9, 534, 560

Wilson, Brian 250, 607, 609

Wilson, Harold 593–4;
In Place of Strife
567
and n

Wilson, Mary 219

Wilson, Sir Richard (RW): post 9/11 4, 7, 11, 13, 18; on need for War Cabinet meetings 42–3; on Jo Moore 58; on legality of bombing Afghanistan 58–9; angry at bad press 87; and Byers/Sixsmith affair 169, 170, 173–8
passim
, 220; thinks AC has briefed against him 181; his views on TB, GB and Powell 181, and the Cabinet 186; rows with AC 220; and AC’s lobby changes 222; on Cabinet divisions 248; fed up with being a human shield 250; ‘menacing’ 250; farewell events 278, 280; mentioned 53, 161, 275

Wilson, Richard (actor) 343

Wilson, Robin 219

Wilson, Tom 278

Wintour, Patrick 221, 368

Witherow, John 283, 354

Wolfowitz, Paul 14, 536, 586

Wood, Sebastian 65, 143–4, 145

Wood Green arrests (2003) 407, 410

Woodhead, Chris 338

Woolas, Phil 619

World Cup (2002) 234
n
, 239, 242, 254, 255, 256, 262; reception 323, 324

WorldCom crash 258

World Trade Center (9/11) xi–xii, xiii, 3–4, 44

Wren, Simon 169, 571

Wright, Tony 346, 369

Yacoub, Sir Magdi 207, 210

Yelland, David 74, 84, 93, 94, 102, 160, 192, 194, 239, 392, 416, 417, 466

Yelland, Tania 392

Young, Hugo 46, 111, 210, 624

Young, Jimmy 148

Young, Sir Rob 39, 128, 129

Young, Syd 650

Ze’evi, Rehavam 60

Zhu Rongji 290

Zia, Khaleda 127

Zimbabwe 180, 181, 182, 189, 192, 290, 444, 446; and World Cup cricket 402, 403, 404;
see also
Mugabe, Robert

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