Kudos to Clare Short for today's performance. I'm still very much of the opinion that this inquiry is a toothless waste of time that is as likely to punish Blair as Sean Connery is to put in a believable...name attached to the phrase "took his own life with an illegally held gun" it was always going to be Halme. Well that's all. Hospital appointment tomorrow so keep me in mind won't you. Bye for now

In 1894 the father of the modern Labour Party James Keir Hardie attacked the press for their fawning over the birth of the future Edward VIII at the expense of reporting on the Cilfynydd mining disaster...– they really would be better off just sticking the New Labour badge on some sea monkeys and calling them their candidates. Anything that stops anybody who has ever had an original thought from running