I'm half with you in your latest post Red Eye, but those innocent civil rights marchers were not just killed, they were adjudged by an official inquiry (undertaken by the UK's Lord Chief Justice) to have been armed terrorists who, broadly speaking, deserved what they got.

If the full panoply of a once-revered judicial system is going to return judgments as perverse as that, then we are entitled to see such judgments revisited in a process that is wide open to public scrutiny. That is what we are getting, day by day, in the Bloody Sunday inquiry. Which is more than would happen in many other countries.

The Blair government (for which I usually have little time) deserves credit for getting the drains up on such a shaming episode (both the deaths and the subsequent Widgery report). You can be sure that when they agreed to do it, the cost (by which I mean the financial cost) would have been their least concern.