Paul J. Berating

You build an anti-corruption body, staff it, fund it, give it a name that sounds like a sneeze — then let it conduct its business in the dark like a poker game in a sacristy. The NACC was supposed to be the torch; instead it became the room the torch was locked in. Now parliament wants to investigate the investigator, which is less oversight than it is an admission that the original design was a padlock sold as a window.