Attend an evening with Andre Agassi

India Knight

Where am I?

The former British Ambassador to Libya already knows what he thinks of the Iraq war inquiry. He thinks that the panel, which began public hearings yesterday under the chairmanship of Sir John Chilcot, has too many Jews on it. The historians who sit on the panel, Sir Martin Gilbert and Sir Lawrence Freedman, are Jewish. Some people — other people, you understand — might think that the panel is not balanced.

Oliver Miles’s contribution to the debate is extraordinary and disgraceful, but it is not uncommon in at least one way. Like Mr Miles, many antiwar critics already know their view of Chilcot’s work. The establishment of the...