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Recent Comments: "Why, exactly, should Blair care a whit if purging and breaking up the BBC "inflames the passions" of the usual suspects? What are they going to do? Vote Tory? Stage a coup?" Simeon Joat, Feb 01, 2004 "You will excuse me if I do not agree with you (today's Guardian) on your opinion of the press. Having been following it since before WW2 I know what it has, can and will do to a left leaning administration. One thing that comes out loud and clear from the Gilligan affair is the way in which he shopped his informant to try to save his skin. The apparent inability of many commentators to sort out the intelligence issue from the Hutton t-o-r marks them down as incompetent or crooks." Kevin J. Nixon, Jan 31, 2004 "The government couldn't win. If they were found guilty, the public would be angry. They are not found guilty, yet people are still angry because they didn't take any blame. So many people made up their mind that the government is guilty. Either way they lose." Lynn Jones, Jan 31, 2004 "I congtatulate you on your excellent book - Blair's Wars. I enjoyed it immensely. I am a reader of The Independent but bought a Guardian as well today so I saw your article and web site. Just one querie about your article - Who are those decent people in Downing Street and the cabinet? If they were decent people they would not associate with scum like Blair and Campbell. Yours a socialist." Barry Emmerson, Jan 31, 2004 "Many thanks for your superb piece in the G today. I feel great dismay and anger about the Hutton report and fear for the self-confidence and independence of the BBC. Campbell's unelected histrionics have appalled me. I know nothing about the setting up of these enquiries, but it seems ridiculous to me that one person can conduct them without his/her own biases being at the centre of ensuing reports. I think of Widgery. Why is it not the case that 3 law lords are required in order to produce at least a mix of biases and perceptions?" Geoff Heath, Jan 31, 2004 "Come on the Tories introduced airport and insurance tax not Labour. Road fund licence has risen less under Labour. Fuel is cheaper now than it would have been under the Tories fuel tax escalator. A recent survey done by a Tory paper came to the conclusion that motoring is on average 17% cheaper under Labour than under the Tories." A. Bibby, Jan 02, 2004

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