Boring Guardian summary

Kelly still smelly

Coroner could hold new Kelly inquest, Simon Jeffery, Guardian, Thursday January 22, 2004

A coroner is considering opening a fresh inquest into the death of David Kelly after it emerged that Lord Hutton was not passed all the information that police had collected about the weapons expert's apparent suicide.

BBC self flagelation in: Panoramic display of fearless self-loathing over Kelly/Hutton Did anyone see this? I thought it was fascinating... strange timing though.

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Tony Blair fielding questions from the public over tuition fees on line.... his answers are in the Guardian

Question from Joss Garman:

Why do you feel that the £1.5bn pounds spent annually on Trident, is better spent on weapons of mass destruction, than on my education and the education of others my age?

TB: I really don't feel this is a comparison we can make. We have a lot of competing demands right across public spending, and we need to balance all of them. Proper defence is essential for our national security.

.... however we can't build our own bloody nukes, missiles, planes etc. because we have a chronic shortage of scientists. No one ever tries to attack us, and when they do, we wont be able to defend ourselves with bombs and tanks, it will probably be more of a T.W.A.T. situation, requiring some "intellegence" which is remarkably thin on the ground nowadays. prime minister.

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Shocking, but predictable... maybe it's also essential for national security
Who gives wealthy men £1,000 a day each to subsidise their farms? - the taxpayer

Charlotte Denny, Larry Elliott and Charlotte Moore, Thursday January 22, 2004, The Guardian

The Duke of Westminster, Britain's richest man, receives a daily handout from the taxpayer of £1,000 under a welfare system for some of the country's biggest landowners provided through Europe's lavish farm subsidy regime.

... Guardian campaign against the Countryside Alliance, notice the use of Tabloid style sensationalism: "Europe's lavish farm subsidy regime" like asylum seeker rants by the Daily Mail
better point though