Now that the new Prime Minister has appointed his cabinet we can expect to hear from the old crew about how they were opposed to the Iraq adventure, but felt that they could do more good inside government than on the back benches. I wait to see how many will say "I was with Tony all the way on Iraq". I predict a very small and leprous band.

More revisionism; Abd-al-Basit al-Megrahi is to appeal once more against his life sentence for his part(?) in the Lockerbie bombing. Now that Libya is coming in from the cold and Bush has his sights on Iran it's going to be OK to revive the other version of Lockerbie; that the perpetrators were the Ahmad Jibril group, hired by the Iranians. If Megrahi's sentence is quashed, and Libya's involvement is finally refuted, perhaps Gadafy will demand repayment of all the compensation he shelled out to get back onside with the Great Satan.