Chilcot: we know Blair was to blame for Iraq, so this is already a work of history | Simon Jenkins

The longer we wait for the inquiry, the less we care about the outcome. Such reports should be immediate and quick, whatever the risks of unfairness

The best war inquiry was into the Charge of the Light Brigade. It was conducted by the poet Alfred Tennyson in eight weeks, and reached a one-line conclusion, “Someone had blunder’d.” It has never been bettered.

Everyone knows who blundered in Iraq. It was Tony Blair. Mild interest may still attach to the question, why? But no one is sitting in an...