I would like to apologise for my reporting of the relationship between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown in the years they were together in government. Some said it was tittle tattle, others that it was speculation, a few dared to suggest that it was fabrication.

Gordon Brown and Tony Blair I now accept that I made mistakes. Things were worse – much worse – than I reflected at the time.

via BBC – Nick Robinson’s Newslog: Blair and Brown: An apology.

Nick Robinson then goes on to list the things he knew but couldn’t tell us.

It’s annoying that a BBC correspondent has withheld important information, but I assume if he did spill the beans at the time he’d lose access to important sources of information and would essentially be out of a job.

I do like after the fact revelations like this though.

I think they spread them out over the year now, but I use to like it when on New Years Day, the Government would release documents that were over 30 years old and no longer hidden by the officials secrets act. The BBC would have a TV show on that morning that covered the revelations along with the back story. The problem always occurred when the events they described happened over the course of 2 or more years. You’d have yourself a year-long cliffhanger on your hands.

But the fall of the Labour Government have brought about several after the fact revelations, and it hasn’t taken 30 years to discover them.