He was, of course, a conservative, who had made quite a bit of money suing people for libel. One wonders how many other miscarriages of justice he caused. And indeed how Olswang (that was the law firm that caught him out) managed to trace the hotel records (the hotel was in liquidation), and how to afford the speculative cost of a drive for a senior lawyer to the derelict hotel (I think it was) to hunt for the records. Aiken was one I would happily have locked up and thrown away the key. System - disrepute: possibly less personally unpleasant than the other conservative perjurer, the well known sex criminal, but what a bag of scum.

Can Goldsmith really equal that, or has he already done so with his opinion that the Iraq invasion was lawful?