"British Politics....murky, obfuscatory, opaque"

This was Mathew Engel's description of The Iraq Inquiry on Friday as Prime Minister Gordon Brown gave evidence, in the weekend edition of the Financial Times. Engel's sketch laments a lack of robust cross-examination, only adding "...one panel member, Sir Roderic Lyne, did show a sharper edge. As ambassador to Moscow in Boris Yelsin's time, he is used to dealing with exasperatingly obtuse leaders."