Biography:
About: British journalist best known for a 2003 report on BBC Radio 4's The Today Programme in which he said a British government briefing paper on Iraq and weapons of mass destruction (the September Dossier) had been 'sexed up', a claim that ultimately led to a public inquiry that criticised Gilligan for errors he made in the report, forcing the BBC's chairman and director general, as well as Gilligan himself, to resign.
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Current position/role: London editor for the Sunday Telegraph; Columnist for the Evening Standard
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- Syria: the two sides of President Assad - Assad is convinced his people love him, even as he kills them - 26th February 2012
- Don't mention the IRA to Martin McGuinness - McGuinness, who is the Sinn Fein candidate for the presidency of the Irish Republic, is rather evasive about his past links with the terrorist organisation - 9th October 2011
- UK riots: A festival of broken glass - As politicians holidayed and police were caught by surprise, rioters looted and high streets burned across the UK. Andrew Gilligan recounts how the week’s horrifying events unfolded - 14th August 2011
- London riots: 'Bleeding, I called 999. A tired man told me to go home' - Andrew Gilligan reports on his own experiences of the lawlessness that swept across much of London and elsewhere - 10th August 2011
- Tottenham and Broadwater Farm: A tale of two riots - Parallels with the Broadwater Farm riots are flawed. Despite the riot, Tottenham has changed dramatically for the better since 1985 - 8th August 2011
- The gentle, trusting Britain that lives for ever in an Ealing comedy - The fuss being made over the 60th anniversary of The Lavender Hill Mob shows how surprisingly relevant these great films remain - 28th July 2011
- The British far-Right is nothing but a rabble - The threat of Islamist attacks far outweighs that from loners with no political clout - 26th July 2011
- How many inquiries do we need? - The scandal surrounding the Murdoch empire has spawned a mass of inquiries. But official investigations can be a poor way of getting at the truth - 22nd July 2011
- Tide lapping at the Government's feet - Cameron about-face on the press raises questions over ability to lead - 19th July 2011
- Phone hacking scandal: enemies of free press are circling - The phone hacking scandal may have put paid to the News of the World – but robust journalism must endure - 8th July 2011
- Local councils and taxpayers' cash: now you see it, now you don't - Is it Labour- or Tory-run councils which are most likely to magic away taxpayers' hard-earned cash? - 27th June 2011
- Islamist extremism: so did we cure the problem? - This week's disclosures from WikiLeaks confirm that Britain was a breeding ground for Islamist terrorism. But, 10 years after 9/11, we still pander to extremism - 27th April 2011
- AV – it’s nothing to shout about - If Australia is any guide, both supporters and opponents of voting reform will notice little real change - 11th April 2011
- Death by a thousand cuts - Local authorities are claiming that spending cuts are forcing them to axe front-line services - 7th March 2011
- David Metter: Skiing in the Alps, the King of the PFIs who owns 28 hospitals and a motorway - Under PFI, David Metter's company has made millions out of the British taxpayer - 28th January 2011
- Can Gordon Ramsay still cut it? - The public spat between Gordon Ramsay and his father-in-law reflects the declining fortunes of his food empire - 11th November 2010
- Don't worry, Boris Johnson - housing benefit cuts are a vote-winner - Most working Londoners have to commute from the suburbs - 29th October 2010
- Why I click with the man who founded Facebook - The Social Network shows the enormous liberties filmmakers take - 21st October 2010
- Royal Mail: I hate to say it, but only privatisation can save our postmen - A saga involving an eBay parcel revealed what's wrong with Royal Mail - 17th September 2010
- Think carefully before voting yourself into a nightmayor - A man with close links to Islamic fundamentalist groups could soon have control of a £1 billion bugdet - 10th September 2010
- Tony Blair's scary journey - Tony Blair claims in his memoir 'A Journey' to be 'normal', but this is a handbook of political mastery - 5th September 2010
- The 2018 bid could rid us of the madness of 1966 - If the Olympics is the fool's gold of a supposedly rational age, the World Cup is different - 27th August 2010
- A ruse that's nothing short of an insultation - 'Nonsultations' inviting us to have a say on big decisions are a fraud - 20th August 2010
- David Kelly was not murdered - Suspicious factors surrounding the death of Dr David Kelly, have led the Attorney General to review his case. Andrew Gilligan, who broke the 'sexed up' dossier story, argues that he probably took his own life - 16th August 2010
- Farewell to Jack Straw – the ultimate modern politician - The Labour politician is ending his 30-year political career, but how much has he got to show for it - 13th August 2010
- Our dangerous dalliance with radical Islam - Whitehall's support only puts us at greater risk from the religious revolutionaries - 6th August 2010
- The bike is perfect for our times: cheap, cheerful and carbon-free - Only cycling can put you in complete charge of your travelling life - 26th July 2010
- 24-hour drinking: Preserving good pubs will help our drinking problem - We need to get back to the idea of drinking as a social activity in ordinary pubs, not getting off our faces in town-centre booze factories - 23rd July 2010
- Michael Gove has found that Whitehall is a difficult beast to master - The Coalition represents a fundamental challenge to the Civil Service - and it is fighting back - 18th July 2010
- Africans don't rate Bob Geldof, so why should we? - It hurts to say this, but Live Aid should not be celebrated - 16th July 2010
- Let machines run the Tube. That will bring the unions to heel - It may sound like science fiction, but an automated Tube system is within the realms of possibility - 18th June 2010
- Does money grow in wind farms? - Wind turbines are a poor way to harness energy - but a very good way to generate public subsidies - 13th June 2010
- The personal agony that will forever be public transport - We do not have the worst public transport in Europe – but we do have the stupidest - 11th June 2010
- If Labour picks Ken, it can prepare for defeat - The former Mayor has done nothing to address the centre ground - 4th June 2010
- For most of us, high-speed rail is anything but - The plight of passengers must come before grandiose projects - 28th May 2010
- It is time to stop fetishising hospitals - let's let the axe fall - Deliquent hospital managements in certain towns have been far deadlier to the local population than traffic accidents or crack dealers - 14th May 2010
- By permitting fraud we betray democracy - The increase in postal-vote fraud is an urgent and dangerous issue - 7th May 2010
- Adopting PR would push Britain to the Right - the Tories' fears are misplaced – it's the Left that has most to lose - 30th April 2010
- How will the Lib Dems jump? Look to their councils - The key clues about a future coalition lie in local government - 25th April 2010
- If the police don't learn to trust us, we will never trust them - Whatever the global reputation of British policing, in Britain itself it is hard to think of an institution which has suffered a greater decline - 23rd April 2010
- Waiting for the election to come alive - The campaign will not catch fire while party leaders insist on ducking the real issues - 15th April 2010
- NHS bureaucrats care for themselves, not the patients - For the first 40 years of its existence, doctors ran the NHS. Now the pendulum has swung too far the other way, to devastating effect - 9th April 2010
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