Nightwaves

The former British diplomat Carne Ross has been in the news in the last few days for - as The Independent puts it - his "previously suppressed evidence that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction".

Mr Ross and I will be on BBC Radio 3's Nightwaves programme tomorrow (Monday) at 10.00pm London time. (The programme can also be heard on the Nightwaves website for up to a week after the broadcast.) The issue we shall be debating is not specifically the well-worn Iraq controversy, though I expect the name of Saddam Hussein, whose forcible overthrow by the US-led coalition I support, will arise in the discussion. Our subject will be whether dictators are a declining force in world politics. I believe they are, and that it should be an integral part of our foreign policy to make them so.