Interested in a 100,000 job? How about Children's Commissioner for England? But would you want it? The job description makes it the weakest commissioner's role in Europe, belatedly conceded by a reluctant Government.
The commissioner will have fewer powers than the other commissioners in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. England tends to regard Northern Ireland as a brutalised and backward bog, but out of conflict has come great creativity, and an inventive human rights culture there has finessed their Children's Commissioner into one of the most empowered in the world.
The Government has relied on England's indifference to anywhere else, in the hope that it won't notice that it is getting a bum deal. At the heart of this is the Government's distaste for any extension of human rights.
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