Fairly caring

摘要

Did government ill-treatment drive David Kelly to suicide? When the news came out, many thought so. Some saw Dr Kelly as a whistle-blower, a public-spirited civil servant who had exposed official deceit. A second view was that Dr Kelly may have been at fault for speaking too freely to an untrustworthy journalist, but that the government had exposed him when they should have shielded him. The third and mildest critique was that although it might have been necessary to release his name, the government did it in a shabby, underhand way, thus contributing to his suicide. The impression of callousness was strengthened by an entry in Alastair Campbell's diary, noting jubilantly that exposing the source would "fuck Gilligan" by undermining his story.