For the first time in a long and distinguished legal career Sir Martin Moore-Bick is in the dock. The chairman of the Grenfell Tower inquiry stands accused of being the wrong race, class and gender for the job. Kensington’s new Labour MP, Emma Dent Coad, says he needs to be replaced by someone with a “human face”. BME Lawyers 4 Grenfell thinks the choice “astonishing”. David Lammy MP criticised the decision to appoint “a white upper-middle-class man”. Never mind his decades of experience; there is the possibility that Moore-Bick enjoys Gardeners’ Question Time and the odd holiday in Tuscany.

So it is not altogether surprising that last week the retired Court of Appeal judge was heckled in a meeting with residents. An activist from the