The Hutton Report makes me feel very uneasy., the country has gone to war, thousands are dead. Iraq is in ruins. The Chairman of the BBC has been forced to resign. Soldiers and civilians are still losing their lives, and not a hint of a WMD has been found. An eminent scientist is driven to suicide, and it is the BBC which is apparently at fault.

Hutton says "… in the context of Mr Gilligan's report, "sexed up" would be understood to mean the dossier was embellished with items of intelligence known or believed to be false or unreliable. This allegation is unfounded."

Unfounded?   How unfounded? Does this now mean that no one is allowed to question anything that H M Government convinces itself is true, regardless of what the patently observable facts might be?

I wonder would the BBC have avoided this embarrassment if its management had not lead it to "dumb down", and move to more tabloid formats in the drive for ratings.

SM