[...]Point 8, Gilligan never apologises. One of the beauties of blogging is the ability to use later posts to comment on, reshape or even correct earlier ones. 'That's what I thought was happening then, but this is what I now know…' That sort of thing.

Gilligan doesn't go in for any of that. He never tells us what went wrong with the airport story. We don't hear why he thinks Iraqi support for Saddam, 'stronger than we thought' on April 1st has evaporated a week later.

In fact, not one single recapitulation, reversal or reanalysis in 6000 words.

Instead, when a prediction or report is wrong, Gilligan moves seamlessly on to the next one.[...]