It’s not often that you take a holiday to return to the same story running nearly two weeks later.
Just before I went away, I updated my Facebook page to say that I thought the release of Megrahi would rebound on the UK government, but I had no idea it would develop into a full-blown crisis.
Bill Rammell was filmed in very unfortunate circumstances making his confession last night. But well may he sweat — perhaps he agreed to be shot like that in sympathy for the dissidents held in Gaddafi’s desert jails.
But the game is up now. Rammell, Miliband, Straw and Brown all decided that they didn’t want Megrahi to die in a British jail. Why? Perhaps because they thought it was cruel to let a man dying of cancer perish in Scotland. Or perhaps not.
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