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Everything Tony Blair didn't want you to know
By Muckspreader
IF EVER there was a national disaster which cried out to be investigated by a genuinely independent and comprehensive public inquiry, it was how the outbreak of foot-and-mouth (FMD) which hit Britain in 2001 was allowed to escalate into the worst epidemic of the disease the world had ever seen.
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MD on expert medical witnesses in trials
Strife of Brian
The King of Troubles: a summer special
A right wedge
Who is the Telegraph's highest-paid Tory MP columnist?
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