A drop of sincerity in an ocean of false redress Des Browne's apology was a change from more usual attempts to limit liability

From: The Scotsman | Date: April 18, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

AS WHEEDLING obfuscations go, it was a masterpiece, a world-class example of torturing the English language into an exquisitely evasive contortion. "I have expressed a degree of regret that can be equated with an apology," said Des Browne, as if to remind anyone who had forgotten that our Defence Secretary is a lawyer by trade.

And had he left it at that, Mr Browne would today be wallowing in euphemistic infamy alongside the former Tory minister Alan Clark, who once told a judge he'd been "economical with the actualite", and whichever Vietnam-era military bureaucrat coined the term ...

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