Today had Jonathan Aitken on – again. I’ve blogged on this before. The discussion was on the decision by the SFO to drop their investigation into BAe. Last time they introduced Aitken as the minister who “famously came unstuck.”

This morning John Humphrys introduced him like this:

“Conservative government defence minister and he had responsibility for overseas defence sales, dealt a lot with Saudi Arabia…”

Aitken did indeed deal with Saudi Arabia and went to prison for perjury and perverting the course of justice to try and keep those dealings secret…