To mark the former prime minister's appearance at the Chilcot inquiry we're doing an Iraq inquiry special, so special we've even broken Politics Weekly rules to draft in someone not on the payroll.
Chris Ames is the editor of the Iraq Inquiry Digest - the website devoted to monitoring every cough and splutter. Ames tells us that not a lot was learnt from Blair's appearance today and that he will probably be recalled - so the circus will run one more time.
Martin Kettle thinks the day of a little more import - Tony Blair, he'd thought, had been getting a little free and easy with his words over recent months (witness that terrible Fern Britton interview he gave in which he appeared to suggest he would still have invaded Iraq if he'd known there'd been no WMD. At that point even his most die-hard supporters gave up the ghost). Kettle thinks Blair knew that was a mistake and today we saw contrition and precision.
Michael White is less upbeat - and choses to reminds us that for a man who has altered the course of Iraqi history, Tony Blair barely read a bit of it. Little surprise then, Mike suggests, that again Blair talked today of not being prepared for the collapse of the Iraqi state.
Crawford, Fern Britton, Goldsmith and Bush. For a quick digest of Blair at Chilcot, have a listen.
