Hague again

Following on from yesterday I was pleased to read Guy Walters in the Telegraph today that in his view the SAS mission to Libya was not botched, at least not botched by us. It must be right to have tried to contact those rebels who had asked for talks even if the mission failed. No doubt there will be another opportunity for talks and one perhaps that will not get leaked to the press, at least until it has proved to have been a success. As for the press, they are a strange lot of people. On the one hand they maintain they need to reveal all they find out about everyone and everything to the world but yet on the other hand they like to foster cosy relationships with politicians. The result of these cosy relationships is that they fail to report information about our leaders that we as voters might find not only interesting but essential to understanding what makes some of our politicians tick. The hypocrisy of the press is only overwhelmed by the hypocrisy of politicians. There are of course honourable exceptions but none as yet come to mind. Craig Oliver, the new No. 10 communications chief, is not liked by the lobby as he has not been appointed from amongst their ranks. That is why I imagine we are being told that the spin against Prince Andrew came from Oliver. Maybe it did and maybe it didn't but the wording of the reports looks like score settling. We'll see how the press deal with the report into police pay. If the police authorities really want to bring policing costs under control then they should do away with the useless community support officers, a really bad Blairite idea like so many of them.