Over half moon glasses  The absence of a public inquiry into 7/7
is a blow to the spirit of openness rather than to truth itself
The default response of an opposition party is to call for a
public inquiry, but we've finally reached a political crisis to
which this remedy can't easily apply. Calling for a public
inquiry into Tony Blair's failure to call a public inquiry into
the July 7 bombings or CIA overflights would at least have the
merit of reducing British politics to the Alice in Wonderland
level towards which it has often seemed to be heading recently.
But, unfortunately, it would be even more inherently doomed to
failure than most political initiatives.  However, the paradox
of opposition anger at Blair's failure to appoint a judge or
civil servant to peer over his spectacles at those in the know
about terrorism and rendition is that, until now, the decision
to submit a tricky political issue to outside judgment has been
viewed as a cynical exercise in delay.  It's more than 20 years
since Sir Humphre