This is the first note for a while. I guess you could say, one of the things this blog is not about is content. But I won't.

There is politics to talk about, as usual. There's this story about Colin Powell and Jack Straw doubting the case for Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction. Full of delightful passages, like these two paragraphs:

Mr Powell said he had all but "moved in" with US intelligence to prepare his briefings for the UN security council, according to the transcripts.

But he told Mr Straw he had come away from the meetings "apprehensive" about what he called, at best, circumstantial evidence highly tilted in favour of assessments drawn from them, rather than any actual raw intelligence.

Bush, meanwhile, claims that we "found the weapons of mass destruction" we were looking for. He meant of course we found two trailers which may be mobile labs that could be used to make weapons of mass destruction - a few too many conditionals there to quite take his words at face value. And of course, even if all those tings were true - if the trailers were used to make chemical or biological weapns - there are still no weapons of mass destruction, and no indication that any weapons that might have existed weren't destoyed long ago - or, I suppose, stolen, before they could fall into our hands.

Bringing us back to the fact that we are better off if Bush and company are unscrupulous liars, because if they were telling the truth - those weapons could turn up at the most inopportune time.