inquiry

the government will have an inquiry about a businessman being murdered by two felons. one who had been let out early and one who was on bail.
but it will not have an inquiry about the london bombings in july.

strikes me if one is needed for the murder of one bloke, that is due to a systemic problem in the justice system then it should be obvious that there should be one for what can only be seen as the failure of the intelligence services to stop the terrorist attack.

except of course we all know that nothing in life is certain and there will always be mistakes.
so while the murder of the businessman is a tragedy for his family and friends it is on balance less of a tragedy than those who were killed and maimed in july.

in both cases questions have to be asked and answers have to be given - but if an internal review is good enough in the case of the july bombings then it should be sufficient for the murder of one man.
unless of course the government is being very cynical and using this inquiry as merely a nice pr stunt and blaming public servants who work in the open, rather than let us look into the clandestine world of the spooks ?