How the pendulum swung from the police not pursuing guilty Savile to pursuing innocent Proctor – and the disaster of Operation Midland.
Children are being groomed, raped, and trafficked, because the authorities are still not doing their jobs properly.
His in-tray features: Covid, mental health, NHS reform…and social care. He’s set to be the most pressured Health Secretary since Lansley.
Yesterday, he bent the passage of time – by giving the Commons the chance to carry out a Covid reckoning before the inquiry is up and running.
We’ve seen gunshot wounds and babies born as a result of rape. With UK Border Force in Dover, we found a girl heading for a lifetime of sexual slavery.
Getting the economy moving won’t even begin to give the Government political momentum. It will need to conduct its own Fairness Audit.
Any fair-minded observer would think better of him at the end of yesterday’s press conference than he or she may have done at the beginning.
They seem no less relevant this morning than they were yesterday – and are unlikely to be answered this afternoon.
The proposals he will announce this evening can’t simply be taken on trust by voters.
The former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party abused his parliamentary privileges. Holding the powerful to account means blocking his peerage.
There are significant loopholes in our safeguarding measures that are entirely preventable, but potentially disastrous.
“The Light of Lights looks always on the motive, not the deed; the Shadow of Shadows on the deed alone.”
Plus: Sympathy for the Downing Street SpAds. The case for chemical castration. And: my interviews with the Tory leadership candidates.
We need action. And we need ministers who understand how to exercise power. They need to use that power to take decisions and make sure they are implemented.