Sir John! Sir John! Are we there yet?

View image | gettyimages.com One of the absurdities of this year’s “silly season” has been another of Britain’s periodic bouts of Chilcot-bashing. When there’s a period of slow news, it seems, journalists remember that Sir John Chilcot was tasked six years ago with inquiring into what we all call simply “Iraq”; and that his report’s […]

Joshua Rozenberg on the Saville Inquiry

In his piece on the “Bloody Sunday” Inquiry at the Guardian’s online law pages, Joshua Rozenberg reminds us how extraordinarily prolonged the inquiry has been: Lord Saville’s report will be too large to publish in the traditional way and certainly too lengthy to read and absorb in the seven-and-a-half hours ahead of formal publication that […]