Virtues of Omission

Mercifully for the Chilcot-reading public, records of over a hundred and fifty trysts and love-notes between George W Bush and the Reverend Poodle will not be disclosed in all their verbatim ickitude. Despite Tony's own efforts towards biometric ID cards and the database state, first in the name of national security and later on the pretext of immigrant-bashing, the Reverend's own privacy remains sacrosanct. Only "quotes and gists of the content" will be used, so that anything incriminating can be dismissed in the time-honoured fashion as having been taken out of context, or misread because George's crayon was down to a stub. The principal cast of the Chilcot report will also be given a right of reply before anything is disclosed to their employers, the taxpayers; and if by some remote chance anything untoward is found to have occurred, it is to be hoped that the Reverend Blair will have sufficient time to spare from spreading enlightenment and accumulating cash to be consulted on the validity of the arrest warrant.