2003

Who cares about terrorists with these little sweethearts about?

I’m sure we’ll all be so happy to know that the chief executive of BSkyB, Tony Ball, doesn’t like the BBC. After his rant about it to the Edinburgh TV festival, that was clear enough. But the real question is why it was news. After all, Mr. Ball is something like Rupert Murdoch’s incarnation on…

Link Oh Christ…”Dr David Kelly told a UK diplomat he would probably be “found dead in the woods” if the UK invaded Iraq, the Hutton inquiry has heard.” It gets worse. “Mr Broucher said the remark was made after Dr Kelly had explained to him that he had assured senior Iraqi officials that if they…

Link to story So how did he come back from the dead then?

Oh shit…

I naturally tried to get in to the inquiry for Campbell’s turn on the grill. I even got up earlier and got to the Royal Courts of Justice just under an hour earlier than on Monday. It didn’t help – a queue of around 160 people had gathered. I recalled that 40 tickets were available.…

“This was clearly an issue which was being overseen on the presentation side by Alastair Campbell,” said No.10 Official Spokesman Godric Smith of the dossier today. Really? Only yesterday he had nothing to do with it! BBC link

So said Ali C in his “not for publication” (you bet?) diary.. BBC NEWS | Politics | Campbell defends dossier role

As promised, I went off to the Inquiry today. And what a day it was. First of all there was the MoD News Director, Pam Teare, who tried to tell us all that she had only decided to name Dr Kelly for the sake of other civil servants. Yes! It was all just to keep…

From various bulletin boards.. Firstly(NY Times):”In Basra, drivers were lining up at gasoline stations today after coalition forces brought in enough fuel to fill 550,000 cars, a supply that should last five days, the officials said. Power cuts that officials said were brought on by looting of gasoline and sabotage of electricity lines prompted two…