By Ian Burrell INTERVIEW GREG DYKE The former director-general of the BBC tells Ian Burrell about his new role as chairman of the British Film Institute, as well as explaining where ITV and the BBC are going wrong, and how Brentford FC can beat anyone, given a fair wind Rain clouds gather and storm winds howl, but Greg Dyke is sheltered indoors, no longer the noble King Lear of the media business, rudely cast out on to the heath to rage about base betrayals in the dark corridors of power ("I am a man more sinned against than sinning." Act III, scene ii).

By ANDREW GILLIGAN THIS is the result of an aircraft bomb made using only materials that can be carried openly through airport security.

Prime Minister Tony Blair defended his decision to go to war in Iraq but said Wednesday he despaired of persuading his critics - some of whom shouted abuse at him and briefly forced adjournment of a House of Commons debate.

About 200 protesters gathered outside the prime minister's residence Saturday to demand an inquiry into why Britain went to war in Iraq, while employees of the British Broadcasting Corp. placed an ad supporting a BBC executive who resigned over a report on Iraqi weapons.

Prime Minister Tony Blair won vindication Wednesday in the toughest political crisis of his career when a judge said the BBC was wrong to report the government "sexed up" intelligence to justify war in Iraq. The broadcaster's top official stepped down within hours.