In what was the key week for Module 8, Williamson was called last Thursday, followed by Chris Whitty on Monday and then Johnson on Tuesday. As it happened, the hearings were of interest less for the salacious titbits emerging from witness testimony (that Johnson was left in a “homicidal” mood following the exams fiasco, that Williamson, poor chap, felt “completely fucked over by decisions on January 4th that I took the shit and abuse for”), and more for what the hearings said of the mindset of those overseeing the inquiry.
Whilst we barely needed a three-year long, quarter of a billion pound public inquiry to tell us that lockdown rules were a bit strict (Whitty) or that children paid a disproportionate price for the pandemic (Johnson), this module, like those that came before it, has been eye-opening in revealing an inquiry intent on proving its own predetermined view: that the pandemic response of blanket lockdowns and prolonged school closures was the right one, albeit exercised too little and too late....<<<Read More>>>...
