Theresa in the Wonderland of the Hallett review
The plainly rushed Hallett Review and the British government response to it raise as many questions as answers. They expose not a carefully planned discreet operation but a terribly improvised muddle in which the left hand ( the PSNI) did not know the full de facto amnesty effect of what the right hand ( the NIO) was doing, and with nobody really holding onto the wriggling baby. The longer term inquiry by the Commons Northern Ireland Select Committee may go on …