Volume 50, Number 16 · October 23, 2003
Blair in Trouble
By James Fenton
Thirty Days: Tony Blair and the Test of History
by Peter Stothard
HarperCollins, 244 pp., $24.95
The Hutton Inquiry: Investigation into the Circumstances Surrounding the Death of Dr. David Kelly
The political day begins, in Britain, at six in the morning, when BBC Radio 4's Today program goes on the air. This is a three-hour news magazine with reportage and political interviews. During the first hour, before the politicians are ready to talk, much of the information tends to be disseminated in the form of 'two-ways'—unscripted conversations between the presenters and the correspondents. Later, after the seven and eight o'clock news bulletins, come the key topical political interviews, which successive governments have both craved and feared, for the presenters are mostly first-rate and refuse to let the politicians get away with propaganda.
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