The recent disclosures of secret Cabinet Office documents have left no-one in any doubt that the dossier was deliberately sexed-up - against the wishes of the intelligence community.

The intervention by Desmond Bowen, suggesting to John Scarlett that he might want to remove some of the caveats and qualifications, seems to have entered the consciousness of journalists, if not the public as a whole. On Sunday Richard Ingrams returned to it, having first cited it last month:

So much for the insistence by Blair and his foul-mouthed henchman Alastair Campbell that there was no pressure put on the intelligence chief by No 10 when it came to the wording of the dossier. So much for John Scarlett's pathetic assertion that it was all his own work.