I’m beginning to understand why we on the left are having so much trouble getting our brethren on the right to believe the things we tell them. It’s because we’re not passing our information to them via cab drivers.

An Iraqi taxi driver may have been the source of the discredited claim that Saddam Hussein could unleash weapons of mass destruction within 45 minutes, a Tory MP claimed today.

I’m becoming more certain every day that future historians, if we somehow manage to not be the architects of our own extinction, will one day look back on this time as the start of a new Dark Ages.