UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
By DOMINIC LAWSON FOR THE DAILY MAIL
Paranoia has set in at the top of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. Over the weekend, its chairwoman, Alexis Jay, complained about the ‘almost continual attacks’ against it, going on to blame ‘people who would like to see it fail because it suits their agenda not to want dark institutional failings brought into the light’.
She went on to rail against her inquiry’s ‘critics’ — presumably newspapers such as the Mail which have, indeed, attacked the incompetence of a process which has so far spent over two years and £20 million without even starting its public hearings.
I can understand why Jay — the fourth head of an inquiry which has already chewed up and spat out three previous chairwomen — feels got at.
But she is deluded if she is insinuating that its media critics have ‘an agenda’ to protect ‘dark institutional failings’. Let me reassure Professor Jay that papers such as the Mail have no agenda in this, other than a desire to report the facts, however inconvenient either to her or the Government.
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