So said Jo Moore, special adviser to Stephen Byers, then Transport Secretary, of 11 September 2001.

So, it would seem, thought the government of 14 December 2006. Lord Stevens had made it known well in advance that that would be the date he would publish his report into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales. It was therefore known what would be the focus of interest of much of the tabloid press^[1] (and, since the Express seems to still have a Diana story on its front page every other day, that didn't take a lot of working out).

So, with all that in mind is it a coincidence that also on that day, Tony Blair was interviewed by Scotland Yard over the loans-for-honours scandal and the Serious Fraud Office dropped an inquiry into BAe Systems and the alleged corruption involved in their dealings with Saudi Arabia^[2]? It is hard to attribute these things to mere coincidence. It is doubly hard to do so with a government as duplicitous as the current Labour one. The spirit of Jo Moore still walks the corridors of power, even if she herself does not.

^[1]In The Independent, it only made page eight, mercifully.
^[2] Apparently, this country is more interested in supplying arms to a repressive government such as that of Saudi Arabia than it is in fighting corruption in its own largest companies. Makes one proud to be British, doesn't it?