January 29, 2004

Hutton Report Perspective

Perry de Havilland has it about right:

The only thing astonishing about the Hutton report...is that so many people are astonished that a paragon of the establishment like Lord Hutton should take the view that whatever the government�s ministers say should be presumed to be correct whilst that of mere journalists, even those working for the state owned media, should be assumed to be dissembling.

Did anyone seriously think the outcome would be otherwise?

The entire report in HTML format is here. The PDF version did not download properly.

Posted by Steve on January 29, 2004
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