But he would be much more persuasive on that narrower point if gave up on the broader one, and reconciled himself to the fact that his style of utilitarianism is not the self-evident and scientific foundation for all sensible moral inquiry that he believes it to be.
For his own political reasons, he was dragged kicking and screaming into Leveson and has failed to follow through on the inquiry's sensible proposals for self-regulation.
But this question, while important for another purpose, is of no importance for the inquiry into sensible substance; for the essence certainly attaches to the form and the actuality.
Ashdown said the Guardian's reporting of the NSA files had been "helpful because it had raised this important issue to the point where sensible people understand this inquiry is now necessary".
It might, therefore, be sensible to allow such an inquiry to offer immunity from prosecution to particularly useful witnesses.The government needs to respond to Sir John's report by showing that it is determined to find, and hold to account, those in the British state who have aided and abetted murders.
I doubt that a battle for power can be settled by an inquiry and a report, however sensible.
460, 98 L.Ed. 630 (1954), on which much of the legislation is based, but also "a host of other eminently sensible decisions, in favor of an intractable factual inquiry of questionable relevance". 67 Minn.L.Rev.
"With the local community and North Ayrshire Council against it, over 22,000 objections and no chance of winning the public inquiry, walking away was the only sensible option".
May told the inquiry she thought the hospitality rules were "a sensible approach".
Shami Chakrabarti, director of Liberty, said: "We welcome the sensible decision to end the embarrassment of a so-called inquiry in which neither torture victims nor human rights campaigners had faith".
