Background – Intelligence – John Keegan weighs in on what could be learned from an inquiry over how the US and UK intelligence services got it so wrong regarding weapons of mass destruction.

• Daily Telegraph: Inquiry is pointless ñ intelligence is always open to interpretation

Background – History – An attempt is to be made to raise the German pocket battleship Graf Spee, sunk off of Uruguay in 1939.

• The Scotsman: Graf Spee to rise from her grave