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appeared at the Chilcot inquiry today. The former defence secretary had that slightly over-eager smile that's familiar now, like the Employee of the Month poster in a provincial hotel. "Can I help you? Room service? Taxi? Assessment of the legal justification for the Iraq invasion?" It soon became clear that his strategy was to bore the inquiry into stupefaction. With questions, his session contained nearly 55,000 words. But these guys are made of tough stuff. They kept coming back. Every time they promised "a last, brief...

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