Meacher leadership bid

Michael Meacher's self-chastising homily on the Iraq war which appeared in the Guardian last week does not, alas, look to be the very-english equivalent of last month's neocon Iraq-renaissance in the states. Meacher, of course, has his own agenda - he told students after a talk at the LSE in November that he was going to be running for the Labour leadership itself. For Meacher now to start sounding the tocsin and turning the moral knife on Iraq (and watch this space, climate change will follow) makes it sound like the stalking horse is taking up a place in the blocks.