Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

This is going to get very nasty. However shocked the British nation thought it was over phone hacking and celebrity sex crimes, will be as nothing to the revulsion which will become the pervading public emotion as details begin to emerge of what public figures, churchmen, MPs, civil servants and even ministers got up to with what they called ‘small boys’.

As rumours, disclosures and accusations flow freely through today’s Sunday papers, there have been more protests at the appointment of Lady Butler-Sloss to head the government’s flagship inquiry. According to the Times on Saturday she covered up by omitting from a previous report the fact that a bishop had been abusing boys, because it would damage the Church, ‘as the press would love a bishop’.

This is precisely why this distinguished judge cannot head this inquiry. She has a record of being a loyal member of the mysterious Establishment and however many endorsements she gets from her nephew, the Home Office and Downing Street will make no difference to the fact that she has become the story and the public at large and the media will not accept her appointment. What her supporters claim she is and how she is seen are now running in different directions. For the credibility of a public figure this is fatal. She, at her age especially, does not deserve this and the Home Office is guilty of a serious blunder in putting her forward.

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