It is almost invariably the case that whenever anyone favoured by the Guardian-reading classes chooses to accept an honour from Her Majesty the Queen the air is thick with suggestions said chap (for it is usually a fellow) has somehow “sold out”. This time it’s Armando Iannucci. Well so what? His own explanation – that it was polite to accept an OBE – is all anyone could desire.
But that doesn’t excuse this Twitter-spat with Alastair Campbell. Oh sure, Iannucci scores a hit – of the palpable variety – with WMD. But by then he’d already lost the argument.
Of course Iannucci’s trite suggestion Bush and Blair marched into Iraq “for no reason” may be the settled view of the majority of British people these days.
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