Six people were arrested last night after police clashed with protesters in fractious scenes in Bristol hours ahead of the second leaders' debate.

Nine-month term for soldier who went Awol to avoid redeployment

Islam4UK last night abandoned plans for an anti-war march through Wootton Bassett, the Wiltshire market town where hundreds line the streets to honour British service personnel killed abroad. The plan had provoked widespread public anger.

The BBC was involved in a fresh row over its flagship Question Time programme today when it was accused of not reflecting public opinion in a line-up of panellists set to discuss the war in Afghanistan.

One advantage of being a true hardcore anti-war obsessive - I mean "doughty and dogged" - is that you do know a lot. Chris Ames realises that the reporting of the Iraq Inquiry is, as I suggested here, here and here, highly selective and biased:

Soldiers, ex-soldiers and military families are set to speak out against the war in Afghanistan before joining a protest tomorrow.

In the fuss over Ed Balls, the Education Secretary, seeming to disagree with the Prime Minister over the openness of the Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war, a more important bit of positioning seems to have been missed. After Balls said, on ITV1 This Morning last Wednesday, "the more open we can be about all of these things, the better", Fern Britton asked him:

Did someone say that to Tony Blair when he played the part of Captain Stanhope in Journey's End, R.C. Sherriff's anti-war play, at Fettes College at the age of 17?

Waltz with Bashir has been banned in most Arab countries, and it's easy to see why.

The outspoken anti-war MP George Galloway has been banned from entering Canada on the grounds of national security.

Yes, we get it. You did not agree with the war. Another conspiracist Freedom of Information anti-war special. Apparently some emails that were disclosed to the Hutton and Butler enquiries,* but not published at the time, say much the same as emails that were published.

If Hey Ma marks the return of James into the national consciousness, it does so with great aplomb and, perversely, sentimental devotion to the time that originally spawned the group.

The fashion world was braced for renewed criticism yesterday for encouraging women to endanger their lives by shedding pounds and trimming waists to a virtual vanishing point after it emerged that a rising young model from Brazil has died from complications arising from the eating disorder anorexia.