David Thompson has further thoughts on Andrew Anthony’s (apparently compelling) new book on his journey away from “guilty leftism”, spurred this time by John Lloyd’s review in the Observer.

 In “The Big Picture(s),” I noted that the establishment media in Iraq tended to rely on dubious reports from various sources, including within the Iraqi police. This weekend, the establishment media brings bad news from Iraqi governmental sources — shocka! — but how reliable is it? The L.A. Times reports: Bombings, sectarian slayings and other violence related to the war killed at least 1,773 Iraqi civilians in August, the second month