BRUSSELS BLOGGER MAARTEN SCHENCK has responded to an “I believe the BBC” campaign among Hutton-deniers with an amusing button of his own. I suspect that it will be popular.

How bad has the culture of denial gotten among BBC true-believers? This bad: “The most inventive theory I have heard this week is that Lord Hutton is an Ulsterman and that Gilligan is a republican-sounding kind of Irish name, and that this is all a subtext of the age-old struggle between Orange and Green.”