The home secretary, Theresa May, has come under renewed criticism over the independent inquiry into child sex abuse as controversy rages over the issue of survivors being appointed to its advisory panel.
Michael Mansfield QC has lent his name to a campaign to force a U-turn on the proposed membership criteria. At one stage Mansfield was considered as a possible head of the inquiry.
More than 200 survivors, whistleblowers and child protection professionals have expressed dismay at the declaration by the inquiry’s new head, Lowell Goddard, that survivors lack sufficient objectivity to be full quasi-judicial members. In an open letter to May, they point out British law does not bar child abuse victims from acting as judges or jurors on abuse cases. They say stigmatisation of survivors for lacking objectivity, before the inquiry has even started work, could doom the inquiry to failure. (more...)
But is it art?
See, the BBC has knack for dealmaking:
I pay attention to this stuff because BBC's daddy, Marconi, was my employer at one time. I'm an old military/industrial complex guy. And hey, even the Knights of Columbus deserves a mention in this tangled web, due to their boosterism for American participation in the Great War. Did they hold hands with any British spooks?
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