OPINION - I'm a court reporter who sat through horrific grooming gang trials – this is why I'm against a new inquiry

Public inquiries make for great spectacles these days – televised grillings of politicians, officials and experts being called to account for the sins of the past. The modern day equivalent of the stocks.

Everything is broadcast online for the world to see, a top barrister leads the questioning, and Prime Ministers, cabinet ministers, and chief executives cannot avoid their moment under the spotlight.

It’s difficult to forget the spectacle of disgraced Post Office CEO Paula Vennells breaking down and sobbing as she was quizzed on the shameful prosecutions of innocent subpostmasters.

Similarly, newspaper editors and owners stepped out of the shadows for the Leveson Inquiry and faced