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Aye Write! Will Hutton and David Blunkett

Between the ex-cabinet minister and the journalist, which one turns out to be a government apologist? No surprises: step forward, Mr Blunkett, a man who still cannot quite relinquish a hope he might make it back to another cabinet post, albeit under Gordon Brown. What he actually said was: "I was too keen to come back before - it did provoke a reaction from the London media. I don't want to light a spark in that direction again. But politics is in my blood through and through."

Between the ex-cabinet minister and the journalist, which one turns out to be a government apologist? No surprises: step forward, Mr Blunkett , a man who still cannot quite relinquish a hope he might make it back to another cabinet post, albeit under Gordon Brown.