Janet Daley is finding it tough going at the Kelly Enquiry:

Some of the questions being particularly difficult:

Yes, we're getting lost in the details. My guess is that we'll never get at the truth not least because half the participants wouldn't know what the truth was if it stood up and kicked them in the groin.

So, what we are left with are perceptions and the one that I think will carry the day is that both the BBC and the government are distinctly dodgy.

Which is fine by me.

In a generally good article, John Keegan, himself a former civil servant writes:

All civil servants are subject to the service's disciplinary procedures and code. One of its most stringent articles forbids communication with the media. Indeed, at regular intervals, we were reminded in writing of the ban and Dr Kelly must have read the warning as often as I did.