“when trying to reconstruct history, dip your bucket as close to the source as possible”
Former Sunday Times Insight journalist, Peter Pringle, savoured the publication of the Saville Inquiry report. And he had some interesting thoughts on Saville’s methodology But questions about Saville’s report on Bloody Sunday remain to be addressed: how did they sift the evidence? What evidence did they leave in, or out? What did the secret services redact? Why did he take so long? Here’s a suggestion of how to start reading beyond the headlines: look at Saville’s methods for reconstructing history. Mark …