Thursday, January 29, 2004

Hutton

There's just so much on Hutton in the British papers (Telegraph, Guardian, etc.) that it's impossible to digest it all. And, of course, the television and radio coverage was wall-to-wall last night.

Some of the Irish news bulletins yesterday were interesting, however, using language that gave you the impression that Tony Blair had pulled a bank job and gotten off on a technicality. As an example, RTE's Anne-Marie Smyth {requires Real Audio, quote is 2'30" into the report.} described Tony Blair as "acting as if he was a man who had been let off the hook". When I saw him, I thought he looked like a man who was delighted to have been vindicated.