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The modern media desires to appease the most fanciful, paranoid and malignant minds of our time, writes JOHN WATERS

IN 12 months or so, the Chilcot inquiry will issue its report, concluding that, in the matter of the invasion of Iraq in 2003, Tony Blair acted at all times in accordance with international law. The report will comment on the incomplete and contradictory information emanating from Iraq in 2002/3 concerning the military capacity of the late dictator Saddam Hussein, but will find that Blair acted in good faith. The British and Irish media will dub the whole thing a “whitewash”.