Like all inquiries, Chilcot is a pageant, too late to matter | Simon Jenkins

These surrogate courts of law should be crisp, swift and certain. Instead they slowly ensure none spill any establishment blood

Did the earth move? Did your coffee cup shake and your corn flakes fly across the room? "Blair misled MPs on Iraq, says Goldsmith", screamed the headline. "PM shut me out of crucial discussions, says Goldsmith". Great heavens, the Chilcot inquiry is back from the realm of the undead, singing its ghostly chorus through Westminster. On Friday Tony Blair returns like...