IS IT TIME YET? For decades, the public have been told that no one is above the law... ...but there remains a rather obvious constitutional difficulty: What happens when the allegation concerns the very institutions which control the machinery capable of investigating it? • Police investigate. • Prosecutors decide. • Courts can adjudicate only upon what reaches them. Where the alleged wrongdoing concerns Government, policing, regulators or other organisations of the State, the citizen remains dependent upon that same institutional architecture agreeing that the allegation should reach a courtroom at all. That is the stark problem. The paper linked below proposes something different: A People’s Investigative Agency - independent of the executive. A People’s Prosecution Service - independent of the existing prosecutorial structure. • Not mob justice. • Not political justice. • Not the replacement of courts. Quite the opposite. A mechanism by which serious allegations concerning the State itself can be independently investigated, independently prosecuted where the evidence warrants it and ultimately determined in a court of law. • Hillsborough. • The Post Office. • And now an accumulating body of contemporary evidence demonstrating just how consequential institutional gatekeeping can become. History repeatedly teaches us the lesson, which has yet to be truly learned and acted upon. Is it time yet? Read the paper here: ethicalapproach.co.uk/propos…