‘Ha ha. Godot will be here before the Chilcot Report. Ha ha’. If I heard this once I heard it a hundred times, from stand-up comedians, newspaper cartoonists, and occasional acquaintances, always delivered as if it was both original and hilarious. It was irritating to me as a member of the inquiry not because of the time it took to finish the report, which I found as frustrating as everybody else, but because I knew that it would be finished and that it would not be the whitewash widely predicted. I was sitting in the audience at the Hay Festival as Ian McEwan lamented that this was going to be yet another establishment cover up if it ever appeared. I tried but failed to ask whether any of his books had been reviewed before they had been completed.
Waiting for Gray
Waiting for Gray
Waiting for Gray
‘Ha ha. Godot will be here before the Chilcot Report. Ha ha’. If I heard this once I heard it a hundred times, from stand-up comedians, newspaper cartoonists, and occasional acquaintances, always delivered as if it was both original and hilarious. It was irritating to me as a member of the inquiry not because of the time it took to finish the report, which I found as frustrating as everybody else, but because I knew that it would be finished and that it would not be the whitewash widely predicted. I was sitting in the audience at the Hay Festival as Ian McEwan lamented that this was going to be yet another establishment cover up if it ever appeared. I tried but failed to ask whether any of his books had been reviewed before they had been completed.