Ard, much as I dislike the (prehaps wrong from my part) feelings that you generate to me on a number of threads, i.e. you are anti-english, I hope you did read the Guardian article I linked to earlier. Here is another quote.

We are not meant to think this way. We are meant to trust and accept the wisdom from on high. But that is becoming harder to do. For Britons remember Lord Denning's conclusions on the Profumo affair in 1963 and his belief that "people of much eminence" could not possibly have misbehaved. Many remember Widgery's similar whitewash job on the Bloody Sunday case. Or the judge in the Archer trial who believed the "fragrance" of wife Mary made it unimaginable that Jeffrey would have used a prostitute.

Wolfgang, I see the BBC resignations more of a matter of regrouping and keeping a media independant from government control than an admission of guilt. Hope I am right... Interestingly, one thing, at least by my interpretations, TB and Howard did agree on was the need to control media (or perhaps more specifically the BBC)... I can't think why...

Jon