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Friday, January 30, 2004
 
THE SEARCH GOES ON...: Aha, they finally think they've got some sort of proof that Saddam managed to carry on with a weapons programme once we stopped flogging them to him, then? Tony Blair was delighted to chill the blood of his MPs with the news that while it turns out there was nothing that was an actual, present risk to anyone very much, Saddam was working on the wherewithall to develop ricin.

Right. Well, ricin is nasty stuff, it's true. But hold on a moment - back when Blunkett was crowing about the 'terrorists' arrested in Manchester, weren't we told that was so frightening about ricin was all you needed was pretty much some castor oil seeds and a metal bowl? So is Tony telling us that after months of seeking, they've found some lentils and a bath-tub?
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THE SEARCH GOES ON...: Aha, they finally think they've got some sort of proof that Saddam managed to carry on with a weapons programme once we stopped flogging them to him, then? Tony Blair was delighted to chill the blood of his MPs with the news that while it turns out there was nothing that was an actual, present risk to anyone very much, Saddam was working on the wherewithall to develop ricin.

Right. Well, ricin is nasty stuff, it's true. But hold on a moment - back when Blunkett was crowing about the 'terrorists' arrested in Manchester, weren't we told that was so frightening about ricin was all you needed was pretty much some castor oil seeds and a metal bowl? So is Tony telling us that after months of seeking, they've found some lentils and a bath-tub?
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Thursday, January 29, 2004
 
CAN YOU BE BIASED IN TWO DIRECTIONS AT ONCE?: Of course, our friends over at Biased BBC are like the proverbial dog with two cocks today, rolling about in the Hutton Report. But we don't quite understand why a big report which claims "The BBC carried a false report which made the Prime Minister look bad" is a matter of such joy to them when their entire existence is based on the belief that the BBC is biased in favour of the Labour Party - indeed, their page leads off on a quote from Andrew Marr: "We get from time to time people saying you're biased in favour of the Labour Party. Every time I ask people - show me a case of that bias, explain to me where we got it wrong and why what we said was so unfair - they seem to be unable to do so." So, that would be the BBC is so biased in favour of the Labour Party its happy to run pieces damaging to Downing Street. I see.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2004
 
PANIC: We're not sure that we should read too much into this, but following the attack on the BBC, ITV News seems reluctant to carry anything that hasn't been 100% proven, while the Manchester Evening News seems to not want to carry anything it can't check without looking at its own passes:

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GET YOUR HUTTON: Trevor Kavanagh, the Sun's sole remaining journalist, has just been on Today taling about the leak of Hutton. He refused to give any indication about who might not have leaked, because people might then use the whittling away of suspects to get down to the leaker. Hmm, not unlike the way Dr Kelly was identified by the government, then?
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