Suicide or not, the week did unearth enough to show that Kelly had dug himself into a hole. It must be plain to any disinterested observer that he was evasive in what he told the MoD about his contacts with Gilligan and Co, and in his evidence to the select committee.

I must admit that the BBC case is not as rock solid as I thought it was going to be, though Gilligan's sloppiness seems to have been confined to one "two-way" that he did from home at six in the morning, without script. He was noticeably more careful with subsequent (scripted) reports.

I'm now fascinated by Susan Watt's line. She went out of her way to be unsupportive of her BBC colleague Gilligan, saying that her tape-recording did not help him. Apart from the Sun and Times (both in the Murdoch stable and hysterically anti-BBC), most commentators seem to have reached an exactly opposite view of the tape. So have I (going by the transcript only, as the tape itself is not in the public domain).