BBC News: 'BBC says Kelly was weapons source' - The BBC discloses that Dr David Kelly was the principal source for its controversial report that an Iraq weapons dossier was "sexed up".
Guardian Unlimited: The vendetta's victim - Front page feature on the apparent suicide of Dr David Kelly, the backroom Whitehall scientist caught in the lethal crossfire over weapons of mass destruction between Downing Street and the BBC.
BBC News: Body 'matches' Iraq expert - Police say a body found in the search for a missing Iraq arms expert matches Dr David Kelly, as the government announces a judicial inquiry.
BBC News: MoD expert was 'unused to spotlight' - Weapons expert Dr David Kelly was a civil servant who had been thrown into the media spotlight over the Iraq dossier row. Profile of Dr Kelly.
BBC NEWS: Government adviser David Kelly: Your thoughts - Tony Blair has described the apparent suicide of weapons expert Dr David Kelly as an "absolutely terrible tragedy". Was the scientist under too much pressure? Comments from website viewers.
ThisisLondon: Scientist thrust into media spotlight - Until recently, David Kelly was an anonymous scientist working behind the scenes at the Ministry of Defence. Suddenly he found himself thrust unwillingly into the media spotlight at the centre of the bitter row between the BBC and Downing Street.
Telegraph: Kelly felt 'betrayed' by the MoD after name was leaked - The Ministry of Defence was under increasing pressure yesterday over its role in naming Dr Kelly as the Whitehall "mole" after it emerged that the weapons expert had felt "betrayed" by the MoD when his identity was made public. (Requires free registration)
Oral evidence of Dr. Kelly - Transcript of the examination of Dr. Kelly before the Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday, 15 July 2003.
MediaGuardian: Mangold - Kelly was 'caught in a nutcracker between BBC and no 10' - Tom Mangold, the former BBC correspondent and close friend of David Kelly, has accused Andrew Gilligan of "taking the apple Kelly gave him and mixing it with an orange from another source", and revealed that his final report "appalled" the respected weapons expert.
The Times: Q&A: Philip Webster on the Kelly Inquiry - Lord Hutton, the judge responsible for the inquiry into the death of Dr David Kelly, has set out the terms of his work. Philip Webster, Political Editor, explains what the investigation will involve.
World Press Review: Suicide and Suspicions over War with Iraq - Review of the British press coverage of the ongoing row over the reasons Britain went to war, the quality of Western military intelligence, and news media bias, intensified by the suicide of British Ministry of Defense weapons expert David Kelly on July 18th.
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost." (Aristotle) Parents are the bones upon which children sharpen their teeth.
-- Peter Ustinov Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases.
-- Anonymous The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten.
-- Mark Twain Gentlemen, it is better to have died a small boy than to fumble this football.
-- John Heisman Kelly, David Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-
proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe
is I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas pere "Now that we have everything we need, we discover that there is almost nothing that we have that we want." (John Cage, M, Writings 1967 - 1972) Kelly, David
"Our lives are repetitious shams--every single day a simulacrum of the previous day. So for Man, he is out to pepper his daily activities with different things--he's fighting against boredom." (Matth Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
-- Benjamin Disraeli Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth which it
prevents you from achieving.
-- Russell Green Kelly, David One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: "Give little, give seldom, and above all,
give grudgingly." Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of
sexual Honor lies in honest toil.
-- Grover Cleveland Marriage has many pains, but celibacy has no pleasures.
-- Samuel Johnson Kelly, David
We always believe our first love is our last, and our last love our first.
-- Anonymous Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
-- G. K. Chesterton I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 A good marriage is like a casserole, only those responsible for it really know what goes in it.
-- Anonymous Kelly, David "Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) He believes that marriage and a career don't mix. So after the wedding he plans to quit his job.
-- Anonymous "The most instructive experiences are those of everyday life." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Kelly, David
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal consistency of the women who
love me.
-- George Bernard Shaw Grad school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.
-- John Rogers, comedian (who holds a graduate degree in physics) A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.
-Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with
it.
-- Colin Powell Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely
been detected.
-- Oscar Wilde Kelly, David Unfortunately, the media have trouble distinguishing between real science and propaganda
cross-dressed as science.
-- Linda Bowles, political columnist "If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair." (Samuel Johnson) I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put
over my kitchen table.
-- Rodney Dangerfield Kelly, David
Do you not know, my son, with what little understanding the world is ruled?
-- Pope Julius III "REASONABLE, adj. Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion." (Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary) In view of all the deadly computer viruses that have been spreading lately, Weekend Update
would like to remind you: when you link up to another computer, you're linking up to every
computer that th There's a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It's called marriage. -- James Holt McGavran It was the greatest of the imperfect ventriloquist acts: when his lips moved, her body sang.
-- Tom Robbins Kelly, David True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
-- Henry David Thoreau Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable. -- Oscar Wilde "Some people wear their heart up on their sleeve. I wear mine underneath my right pant leg, strapped to my boot." (Ani Difranco) Kelly, David
Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just
flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
-- Oscar Wilde Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances
continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the
distance Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same
thing nowadays.
-- Oscar Wilde They're almost inseparable. Sometimes it takes ten people to separate them.
-- Anonymous Kelly, David People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
-- Otto von Bismarck Be tolerant of the human race. Your whole family belongs to it -- and some of your spouse's
family does too.
-- Anonymous Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and around the hands and feet of the man. Kelly, David
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is
when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
-- Marcel Achard Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
-- Thornton Wilder Why did Nature create man? Was it to show that she is big enough to make mistakes, or was it
pure ignorance?
-- Holbrook Jackson Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
-- Erma Bombeck "Ask five economists and you'll get five different answers (six if one went to Harvard)." (Edgar R. Fiedler) Kelly, David Once a boy becomes a man, he's a man all his life, but a woman is only sexy until she becomes
your wife.
-- Al Bundy, character on "Married with Children," U.S. television show Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
-- Vince Lombardi "Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it." (Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) Kelly, David
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested
he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie In marriage, as in war, it is permitted to take every advantage of the enemy. Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Louis Berlioz blah "A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
-- Lynda Barry Kelly, David Most people think life sucks, and then you die. Not me. I beg to differ. I think life sucks, then you
get cancer, then your dog dies, your wife leaves you, the cancer goes into remission, you get a
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
- Albert Einstein The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. Kelly, David
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame." (Erica Jong) Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Does anal retentive have a hyphen?
-- Seen on a t-shirt Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree.
-- Oscar Wilde I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson Kelly, David How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create
it herself.
- Anais Nin "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." (James Madison) If you are going through hell, keep going.
- Sir Winston Churchill Kelly, David
"Have confidence that if you have done a little thing well, you can do a bigger thing well, too." (David Malcolm Storey) Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to
take away.
- Antoine de Saint Exupery If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get
married.
-- Katharine Hepburn Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item.
-- Anonymous Kelly, David "Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at." (John Berger) I do not see the EEC as a great love affair. It is more like nine desperate middle-ages couples with failing marriages meeting at a Brussels hotel for a group grope. -- Tynan "Every now and then say, 'What the fu(c)k.' 'What the fu(c)k' gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future." (Curtis Armstrong, Risky Business, 1983) Kelly, David
Any intelligent woman who reads the marriage contract, and then goes into it, deserves all the
consequences.
-- Isadora Duncan Spinster: A bachelor's wife. The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps
the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
-- Helen Hayes The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
-- Brian Pickrell "Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children's strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms Kelly, David I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence.
-- Doug MacLeod "It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard." (Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, US writer) Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.
-- Chinese Proverb Kelly, David
