#STONES UNTURNED FULL#
Hallett vehemently disagrees and it will now be up to the high court to decide, a decision likely to take weeks even in the expedited hearing sought by the government.īehind the legal case is a widespread assumption that Sunak and his advisers fear that handing over a trove of unedited documents from Johnson will set a precedent for the same thing to happen for the current PM and his ministers, with potentially embarrassing consequences.Īdding to the complexity is the fact that Johnson has made it plain he is very happy for the Cabinet Office, to which he handed his diaries and notebooks and WhatsApp messages, to pass these to Hallett in full – and that he will do so anyway. “The compulsory powers conferred on inquiries by the 2005 act do not extend to the compulsion of material that is irrelevant to the work of an inquiry,” Eadie wrote. The Cabinet Office reasoning, set out in a legal argument by Sir James Eadie, the barrister who in his role as first Treasury counsel advises ministers on the law, is that Lady Hallett’s demand for information goes far beyond what is relevant and also beyond the statutory scope of her inquiry. The decision by the Cabinet Office to seek judicial review of the demand by the inquiry chair, the retired judge Heather Hallett, for full access to phone messages and other documents from Johnson has prompted condemnation from opposition parties and cries of betrayal from bereaved families’ groups.
Two prime ministers on, we are in the deeply curious position of Johnson, not a politician renowned for welcoming scrutiny, pledging to do whatever he can to give the inquiry all the information possible, while Sunak and his ministers launch a court battle to do the opposite. Not only was the work beautifully crafted, but it also prompted me with numerous questions regarding my own art and philosophy.In May 2021, when Johnson announced plans for the inquiry – albeit one that would not begin for a year – he billed it as an opportunity “to get the answers that the people of this country deserve”.
When I visited the eight-room showing of his work, American Silence (based upon the coffee table book of the same name), I was fascinated. While he has done quite a bit of nature photography in the past (many of which are conservation efforts, revealing the ecological impact humanity has had on the world and the devastation we so love to cause), much of his work focuses upon everyday life, through the lens of architecture. He was not focused so much on a single genre of photography as he is an *explorer of light*. It had only been this year that I had heard of Robert Adams - through the reading of his Beauty in Photography - but I was intrigued by his work.
So when I heard about a Robert Adams exhibition at the National Gallery of Art, thanks to Jeffery Saddoris on Deep Natter, I knew the time had to be made for a visit. Due to the focus being on a singular gallery, and that gallery being on the outskirts of the city rather than along the famous Pennsylvania Avenue, there was not much seen of the city itself and all it has to offer. In fact, it was only my second time ever visiting the capitol: the first was back in 2018 and was part of a college trip for an art class taken at the time. If I had 1,000 years to live on this rock there’d still be stones left unturned ~ Daniel WhiteĪ few weeks ago, I took a trip to Washington, D.C., for the first time in a number of years.
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