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<jats:p> Life's events have provided plenty of experience for those of us in BBC News over the last year, writes the BBC's former editor of news. Following both the Hutton and Butler Inquiries, what is his view now about what happened a year ago? "I am not one of those who would argue that Andrew Gilligan was 'mainly right'. In journalism 'mainly right' is like being half pregnant - it's an unsustainable condition. The facts as they continue to emerge show we got some things right and we got one big thing wrong. At the time it seemed very complicated. On reflection, it was quite simple. Today set out to broadcast a report about genuine and, as we now know, well founded reservations among parts of the intelligence community about the September 2002 Iraq dossier. That was the script which the programme approved. In a live interview Andrew Gilligan used a form of words which wrongly suggested bad faith on the part of the Government. The BBC, concentrating on what it had intended to broadcast, was slow to recognise the significance of this departure from the script. Alastair Campbell launched a sweeping attack on the BBC before the Foreign Affairs Committee. From that point on there could be no happy ending.". </jats:p>