Yes, it is true that we now know more about the devastating impact of clergy misconduct than we did two decades ago, but surely they understood at that time that what they were doing violated their vows and was morally and legally wrong.
Surely, at a time when US companies are holding close to $2 trillion in cash, earning next to nothing for balance sheets, we should be investing in improving this frustrating deficiency.
Any account at that time would surely have focused on delay, delay, delay as the key problem with the system, due to the immense backlog of cases then overwhelming the Information Commissioner's Office.
This conclusion could have been drawn by the observation of large benign tumors of the breasts, erroneously characterized as cancers, which do not ulcerate and have good prognosis, while any surgical intervention at that time would surely have high morbidity.
Even those who most adamantly say they're proud to be gay would surely admit that at some time or another in their lives, they hoped against hope that they could be straight.
Some of them were surely devastating at the time.
I surely did at the time.
It is surely ironic then that, at a time when it is needed more than ever, LLUK is having to focus some of its energies on securing its own future.
But that time would surely be at a point when that hypothetical no longer resembles the world in which we're actually living.
If, as many expect, it loses its earlier gains, it will surely be inquisition time at Wapping.
