11 December 2002 - Iraq’s declaration

When the evening glides in like a slug, and the news hammers the square peg of fighting in East Timor and fighting in Ivory Coast into your round skull, there’s nothing for it but to go to bed. But even bed holds no peace without bedtime reading, and the world’s sleepiest 12,000 pages have been cruelly sequestered by the Security Council on the muddy grounds that they contain the deadly third-hand “secrets” of a third-rate Third World third party.

Insomniacs unite! Demand the release of Iraq’s weapons declaration!