Davies gets his retaliation in first

Meaty and coherent preemptive strike from BBC Chairman Gavyn Davies on Hutton (although last minute delays to the report may make it a bit more preemptive than intended). You’ll need an ft.com subscription to read this (for you foreigners: a judge, Lord Hutton, is conducting an enquiry into the circumstances of the death of a Ministry of Defence weapons expert fingered as a BBC source. Here’s The Guardian’s Hutton backgrounder).