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Generally, inquiries take too long, and fudge critical issues (apart from costing a shed load, and resulting in remarkably little action). So, not one of those please.

But this does need an inquiry.

Surely the point of an inquiry is to learn lessons and take rapid action to prevent recurrence? The outcomes should be fast, and they should be very limited in number (eg 5, not 86...). And they need to meet a "good enough" standard.

And, much as I might want to allocate blame for the predicament that the UK finds itself in, frankly that is not helpful in meeting the principles above, so don't go there. Leave that to journalists who should be holding ministers and experts to account in real time - I wish!