Matrix Churchill to Illegal Immigrant Cleaners and More Outright Lies

Channel 4 News this evening exposed the further and deepening corruption of government as evidenced by the conflicting statements of the new (Scots constituency) Home Secretary on Sky News. Time then perhaps to remind ourselves of the event, following which, trivial political corruption became more serious by re-visiting this report on the Matrix Churchill affair by David Guyatt (many others are available online) : Scott was also charged with investigating serious charges that the government had repeatedly "misled" Parliament, lied to the public, and undermined the 300 year old constitution.

By any reading, Scott upholds all three allegations; adding a few of his own for good measure. Once sufficient to bring any accountable government tumbling to its scabbed knees, the bizarrely worded report was subjected to acrimonious debate in Parliament. Bruised, battered and reeling under incessant Parliamentary and media assault the government scraped a technical victory and by the slimmest of partisan votes - 320 against 319 - survived to export another day. Twenty four hours later, the whole affair - arguably the biggest political scandal in decades - disappeared as though tossed off the edge of the planet, stark testimony to the integrity of British journalism