Abuse inquiry is now a fantasist’s playground

UNITED KINGDOM
The Times

January 1 2015

David Aaronvitch

The vitriol aimed at Dame Fiona Woolf shows how detached from reality the self-appointed victims’ champions are

The year turns on a rusty hinge and the squeaks of 2014 grate on into 2015. So Fiona Woolf found herself both damed and damned as the new year’s honours list was announced. Damed for being only the second woman lord mayor of London and a distinguished lawyer; damned for being unfit (temporarily, at any rate) to receive such an honour

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