Geoffrey Wheatcroft, facts and charm do not go well together

If he can he bothered, we will leave it for John Rentoul to demolish Geoffrey Wheatcroft’s appalling diatribe in the Indy.  As with so much else, the poor chap can’t even get his facts right:

On Thursday's Today programme, Hans Blix, the former weapons inspector who had found no evidence of WMD in Iraq before the invasion, courteously said he didn't think Blair had acted in conscious bad faith.

Blix gave his interview on Friday’s Today programme.  A small point until you get to this:

To borrow a hallowed phrase from Irish politics, those who trusted Blair have again and again been left with their arses hanging out of the window.

Wheatcroft should remind us all which charm school he attended as a young man.  For his benefit and as a reminder to the rest of us on how to it, Tony Blair will be giving a one day refresher course on the subject this coming Friday.