The Covid inquiry shows why we’re a dysfunctional country - David Behrens

Now that we know what we’d long suspected – that in the darkest days of lockdown our leaders were flailing about like the Three Stooges let loose with a fire hose – the very least we might expect is to see the political classes rendered contrite.

But if we thought the chaos would give way to a new and more sober era rooted in reality we were fooling ourselves as much as they fooled us.

We took the government seriously three years ago because we wanted to believe they knew what they were doing; because other, more stable countries were taking similar precautions; and because we were frightened.

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