Well, the “decision that hadn’t been taken yet” has now officially been taken. Geoff Hoon stood up in the Commons and said that the Black Watch are indeed officially going to the region of Iskandariyah. It’s worth pulling out and unpacking some of the arguments that the government has used on this one. The first…
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