Blair's evidence to Chilcot as a Wordle

Mouse has made use of the excellent Wordle facility before.  It is a web tool which captures the most common words in a piece of text and produces them in a graphical form.  It often betrays something about what you talk about.

So Mouse wondered whether Blair's evidence to the Chilcot inquiry would make an interesting Wordle.  As it turns out it really doesn't.  Its simply full of Blair's verbal commas.  The only words which register are 'I think', 'of course', 'you know', 'actually', 'as I say' and so on.  On reflection, however, perhaps this does say something about Blair's evidence.  These subconscious verbal commas are really ways of stalling whilst the mind thinks about what you really want to say.  It shows just how careful Blair was being with his words.  Nick Robinson revealed on his blog just how nervous Blair was before this appearance.  And rightly so.

Mouse had predicted that Blair would give absolutely nothing away - how could he?  As far as Mouse can tell we learned not a single thing from the whole media circus surrounding yesterday's appearance by the former PM.  In that respect, the Wordle is a pretty fair reflection of what he said.