More closure

From time to time I comment on the difficulty we seem to have with closure of major failures and disasters, most recently at reference 1.

So I was not best pleased to read this morning, in yesterday's Guardian, that our local human rights people - as opposed to the EC or UN variety - have spent 15 months investigating the Grenfell disaster. Certainly a disaster, but not the sort of matter that I had thought had a particularly human rights flavour. By casting their net so wide, the human rights people run the risk of bringing their whole operation into disrepute, rather in the way that the heritage people and the public memorial people have.

Grenfell is an object lesson on what happens to complicated public services when you try to run them with inadequate resources, perhaps on wholesale privatisation of said services, but not on human rights. The  human rights people would have done better to keep their powder dry.

But I suppose the lawyers and their various hangers on are happy enough. Just another fee to them.

Reference 1: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2019/03/closure.html.