Questions to which the answer is 'your question is important to us, please hold'

A double rollover day for any Labour people that might be passing by - I've got a couple of queries for their perusal this time...

Courtesy of Duncan Hothersall's slip of a few weeks ago, we now know that the "Admin" of Labour Hame and Tom Harris MP are, in fact, one and the same person. One being, two identities - it would be like the Holy Trinity if only there were three of them (after all, just like God, Tom is "right, and everyone else is wrong"). Is it therefore just a coincidence that Tom now only chooses to post his worthy, earnest pieces under his own name, and bashfully switches to "Admin" whenever he wants to make wild claims like...oooh, I don't know, that the Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has "backed" Alex Salmond? I mean, Tom wouldn't have a slight concern that saying things like that under his own name might prove a tad incompatible with trying to mount a serious leadership bid which promises a new politics, would he?

And the second question - in the light of recent events, does Ahmadinejad's throwaway, unsolicited expression of support for Scottish independence look better or worse than Tony Blair's public embrace of Colonel Gaddafi, and the Deal in the Desert? After all, the obvious difference between the two is, to use George Foulkes' immortal turn of phrase, that Blair associated himself with a lunatic dictator deliberately.

How the Bush responded to the Olive Branch

Over at the Spectator's Coffee House blog, James Forsyth is rather excited about proof that Iran had privately acknowledged its responsibility for attacks on British soldiers in Iraq. The evidence comes in an interview given by the former Foreign Office political director Sir John Sawers for the excellent BBC2 series Iran and the West. This is certainly important information - although it doesn't really tell us anything we didn't already know. But it's utterly predictable that a Spectator journalist would pick up on that while completely ignoring the other extraordinary revelation in tonight's programme - that Iran had explicitly offered to take the necessary steps to normalise relations with America (including pretty dramatic things like the transformation of Hezbollah into a peaceful political party) but the US refused to even discuss it for ideological reasons.

What also became clear was the extent to which Iran had resolved to reach out a cautious hand of friendship following the 9/11 atrocities - an initiative to which George W Bush responded with the 'Axis of Evil' speech.