"IT IS ALWAYS bad business to try to explain yourself on paper - at least not all at once - but when you work as a journalist and sign your name in black ink on white paper above everything you write, that is the business you're in, good or bad... That is a thing you want to remember if you work in either journalism or politics - or both, like I do - and there is no way to duck it. You will be flogged for being right and flogged for being wrong, and it hurts both ways