An inventive conspiracy theorist — and I’ve met a few — would have an interesting time with the weekend’s Blair-Britton interview. There was the former PM, three weeks into the Chilcot inquiry, throwing what sounded (from fevered reports) like a grenade into the over-placid waters of the Iraq interrogation.
Now, we know that a large part of the antiwar establishment believes that Tony Blair is guilty of prewar villainy, and that the test of Chilcot is to discover the smoking testimony. But up until now the Chilcot inquiry has more or less progressed as I thought it would, with much interesting testimony overlooked as time-poor scribblers scan the transcripts for anything that will incriminate Mr Blair, in much the same way as teenagers used to speed-read library books looking for “vagina”.
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