I’ve been tempted to write a lengthy ramble about the so-called Hutton Report, it being one of the few things sparking my attention in the news… but, nah, I’ll be brief (I think).
What does this report mean, anyway? Are people getting confused about the Lord in Lord Hutton? It doesn’t mean Lord as in God, you know. In my opinion, for a report of this kind to carry any kind of weight, it needs to be the result of analysis by panel (in the same way that a trial verdict is reached by jury). Even that hardly ensures true objectivity—whatever that is—but it’s probably the best we can hope for.
One man’s allegedly objective analysis simply isn’t good enough, particularly when he admits the ‘scope’ of the report is so limited as to rob the process of any genuine context. Aw, who needs a context anyway? Hilarious.
To watch Tony Blair, you might be forgiven for thinking a pronouncement by God Himself has been made. As for that weasel Alastair Campbell…
The resignations at the BBC are unfortunate. They have been held up as the primary scapegoats, and in spite of Greg Dyke’s mildly defiant statement on Wednesday, off he went the next day. Before he was pushed, I assume. Blair is pissed off that the BBC is no longer in his pocket, and the way things have been going, maybe he’ll have them back in there forthwith. I really hope this isn’t the case.
One BBC reporter made an interesting comment that echoed my own thoughts (and I imagine a lot of people’s). It was something along the lines, ‘If Tony Blair himself had written the Hutton Report, it would have been something very much like this.’ Disturbingly true.
This is one of the reasons I won’t vote for anyone. Politics have become almost irrevocably corrupt. Maybe they always were, but these days, the cracks sure are beginning to show…