Because of my integrity you uphold me and set me in your presence forever (Ps 41:12)
Cheshire Police spent years and two hospitals looking for more babies Lucy Letby killed. Prosecutors have now twice declined to bring a single further charge. If a nurse standing near a dying infant proves nothing in nine cases, what made it proof in fourteen?
Around five thousand offenders walk out early from October, into the arms of a tagging contractor with a two-day grace period on breaches and a probation service missing thousands of staff. Whitehall calls this easing prison demand. Nobody has explained where the demand is supposed to go.
Britain has perfected a type of scheme which identifies a genuine obstacle, promises to remove it, then buries the promise beneath forms, queues, and reimbursement rules until claiming becomes a full-time job in itself. Nobody in Westminster counts the cost of collecting.
Since 2004 the Cabinet Office has been trying to replace 286 back-office systems with five. It has burned through £1.15 billion, cannot state the bill, cannot name anybody in charge, and cannot persuade the Treasury to use the platform the Treasury is funding. Tesco managed this in the nineties.