Deborah Orr

Deborah Orr: One more inquiry isn't going to help

I don't believe a public inquiry into the Baby P case is necessary. I think the failings in Haringey are already perfectly clear. Why should they not be? They are, after all, the same failings that are revealed in almost every public inquiry, into almost every public service dereliction.

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There was no need for the authorities to have been so heavy-handed with Hannah Jones

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Saturday, 8 November 2008

They are the first couple with young children to have got there since American women got the vote

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Deborah Orr: Can we agree on this: you don't discuss other people's sex lives

Saturday, 1 November 2008

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