A first?
This is probably the first time I’ve enthusiastically blogged Boris Johnson and the magazine he edits, The Spectator, (apart from Philip Hensher’s trenchant review of the recent Proust translation - (the mention of which continues my project to refer to Proust in every blog this year)) from which this article by Rod Liddle, the man who hired Andrew Gilligan, comes.
Boris is innocent enough not to understand what Mr Gilligan has done wrong. Like Proust, as mentioned below (too): so innocent, and yet so perceptive.
Peter Obourne’s main piece in The Spectator is interesting because it characterises the head of the Joint Intelligence Committee’s loyalty to New Labour as a betrayal of its history, so much so that it “ceased to be an objective guardian of the truth”. What a charming concept! Of course, it never was that but a guardian of British power in the world. (It also claims that Hutton had an “unblemished reputation” before this report. This is sent packing by Seamus Milne in The Guardian.) Perhaps what the Right fear only is New Labour’s craven poodling to a foreign power, be it the USA or Europe. They don’t mention anything other than British soldiers’ deaths.
Most of these links, and so much more, come from the frothing torrent of truth and light that is Lenin’s Tomb. I dread the day when Lenin gets a job or graduates.
Other Splinters posts of interest:
- Fury crosses the Mersey
- So …
- Reader Response Required
- Reporting Hutton
- 2 for 1 Today’s Guardian has a "buy one, get on…
