Yakking for Argyll

Watching the Russian Ambassador to the UN deny the Russian army presence in Georgia was an extraordinary display of brass neck. Terrifyingly his plausibility wasn’t dented by the assembled press corps. The only reason I ‘know’ he was lying, was a subsequent report from the BBC which I have no reason to doubt was accurate. And in this context his performance really reminded me of a couple of our own home-grown spin-doctors (Blair and his comrade in PR, Campbell). A frightening comparison on both counts.