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s with all good psychotherapy, perhaps it’s best to start by admitting that the UK has a problem. We can see the hallmarks of this problem in the litany of scandals that will be familiar to us all: Mid Staffs, Morecambe Bay, Grenfell, Windrush, the Post Office travesty and, perhaps the most tragic of all (although it is invidious to compare scales of suffering), the tainted blood scandal, on which the third and most exhaustive inquiry reports tomorrow.

It is not just that these scandals involving the state and its proxies occur at an arguably higher frequency here than in other nations but also that the clear-up operations unfold over longer periods, are subject to greater obfuscation and delay and, by implication, fail to adequately

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