UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
What a farce!
As Dame Lowell Goddard becomes the third chairman in two years to resign from Theresa May’s child abuse inquiry (or was she pushed?), this ill-fated exercise is once again up in the air.
The Mail has deep compassion for victims of paedophilia, who often bear mental scars throughout their lives.
But with the departure of this deeply unimpressive New Zealand judge, who spent three of her first 12 months in the £500,000-a-year job on holiday or overseas, it is surely time to take stock.
Leave aside problems in finding a competent chairman with no links to Establishment figures under suspicion.
From the outset, the inquiry has been blighted by its dauntingly wide brief to cover more than 60 years and investigate dozens of institutions.
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