Mick Hartley

If anyone was thinking about a suitable response to the letter of the British diplomats which both the Guardian and the Independent ran as headline news….well, Melanie Phillips has beaten you to it:

The advanced state of Britain’s utter moral bankruptcy is on vivid display today with the publication of the scream of venomous outrage by 52 ex-diplomats against Tony Blair’s backing for George Bush over Iraq and Blair’s failure to rein him in over his support for Israel. Their letter speaks volumes for the rancid prejudice which animates so much of the British foreign policy mandarinate, and has now unfortunately influenced the attitude of so much of the population.

I get the feeling she wasn’t very impressed.