Long time no blog. I've had too many other things to distract me. And there's so much going on that it's hard to keep up. But I've had two emails from the Prime Minister in the last week and that's cause enough for me to shake my feathers and start paying more attention. For now though, David Kelly.
Last night the BBC showed the long awaited programme in its Conspiracy Files series, on the death of chemical weapons expert Dr David Kelly. Was it suicide, as Lord Hutton concluded after usurping the Coroner, or was there foul play? At the very least there are inconsistencies and unanswered questions, and one has the impression of untidy forensic work which would be unacceptable in a conventional case, but were unforgivable in the death of such a high profile person – Kelly was headline news at the time in the running battle between Alistair Campbell and the BBC. Lord Falconer's insistence that the Coroner should halt the inquest looks as dodgy as the government's dossier.
At the very least, if Dr Kelly did take his own life, the cause of death should go down as 'aggravated suicide', if there is such a thing. I can still remember my feelings as I watched the baying MPs question him. And he had two MOD interviews which we know little about but which were probably not very pleasant. It seemed as if the whole of the Establishment wanted to pin all the problems of the moment onto him, and the support he received from his employers and managers was zero. If it had happened in the real world the employment tribunals would be up in arms.
Personally I found the programme somewhat tame, but perhaps that's because it was telling those of us who've been following the investigations by the excellent Norman Baker MP, and others, what we already know. The creepy thing was this morning, when I tried to visit Rowena Thursby's Dr David Kelly blog, which I've visited several times before, it (repeatedly) crashed my browser; other Blogspot sites were fine. The site was OK in Firefox, but Safari (Mac), my preferred browser, is normally as stable as a stable thing. Weird.
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