I found Robin Marantz Henig's frank inquiry a very helpful step closer to the mystery of death, or rather the mystery of our relationship with death.
Which is why TechCrunch has decided to throw its hat into the ring and try to bring together the leading players in the space for a frank discussion and inquiry into this next phase in Zug, Switzerland, this July.
"Reports like this, and the Metropolitan police commissioner saying hours before the bombings that London had a 'gold standard' of counterterrorism policing, can only reinforce the absolute need for an independent inquiry, along the lines of the Franks inquiry.
They show the officials favoured from the outset a secret inquiry to be conducted by privy counsellors, based on the Franks inquiry into the Falklands war.
The Falklands war, which had the united support of the British people, nevertheless led to the Franks inquiry, which looked into its origins and apportioned responsibility.
Older readers may remember that when the Franks inquiry into the Falklands War was published it was seen as entirely exonerating the Thatcher government and Franks' strong qualifications were barely heard.
When the Franks inquiry into the war's origins published its report the next year – the contrast with Chilcott is interesting – the Thatcher administration escaped blame, though, as Beckett points out, its prewar approach to the fraught question of the islands' sovereignty had been risky and barely coherent.
Blair, in previously unpublished evidence given to the inquiry, submitted in January 2011 that Britain had to take a frank and considered view of its relationship with the US.
"We had a frank exchange of views.
You could have a frank talk.
Each side owes itself a frank assessment.
