Unconnected Notes.

I’ve written in this blog before about the case of Dr David Kelly. He was the government arms inspector who was responsible for blowing the whistle on Tony Blair’s lies to parliament. Shortly afterwards he was found dead with his wrists slashed, and the official cause of death was declared to be major blood loss through haemorrhage. The verdict was suicide. The circumstances raised several questions at the time, but they were brushed conveniently under the carpet. A subsequent TV documentary dutifully went down the official line and declared the whole thing to be just another silly conspiracy theory.

There have been several attempts since then to have the case re-opened, and those attempts have come from senior personnel in the medical profession. These are not the kind of people you associate with a fondness for conspiracy theories. Today, another group of eight experts – including a coroner – have renewed the call. They say the official cause of death is inconsistent with the known facts. I doubt they will be successful. The underlying facets of human nature don’t change as the centuries pass, and the system is well practiced at closing ranks.

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I watched a beetle scurrying across a lane earlier. The lane is not much wider than the average SUV, but it must be a trek of some distance to a small beetle. I wondered why it was doing it, and I further wondered whether the beetle knew why it was doing it. What level of consciousness does a beetle have? Was there some purpose behind its arduous journey across eight feet of asphalt, and was it aware of that purpose? I wished it well, anyway.