Suddenly, out of the blue, Huttonian is an expert on Iran;

Go to http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/tm_headline=quiet-effort-is-only-way-to-end-it--%26method=full%26objectid=18831151%26siteid=89520-name_page.html

and you will see what I mean. Actually it is misleading byline. I did not write anything but the short snappy portentous (as one bloggee put it)one sentence paragraphs is a synthesis of about four conversations on the phone with three different Mirror journalists. Tabloid speak is quite an art and it would save alot of time if our politicians could model their speeches on this technique;

My Friends

I have come

to bury

Tony Blair

Not to praise him

His legacy Speaks for itself

Don't it?

I am also on Radio 5 live at 12 noon. Make a note.

My on the ground expertise is somewhat out of date.

But I did work in the gulf for 7 years between 1981 and 1990.

Including being Our Man in Kuwait.

And sadly, little seems to have changed for the good since then.

Especially in the many, somewhat confusing, corridors of power in Tehran

Where the Mullahs and the Mavericks jostle to call the shots

(see, its quite easy when you know how)  ¶ 10:22 AM