From time to time I comment on the way we all too often mismanage the inquiries made into man-made mischief, where things have gone very badly wrong as a result of mistakes made on the ground. Inquiries which generate huge amounts of heat and cost huge amounts of money and which, to my mind, offer very poor value for money. The only winners are the lawyers and the journalists.
Yesterday's Guardian included a reminder that this disease percolates down onto small as well as large mischief, with some medical people (returning volunteers from the West African ebola outbreak) being hauled over hot coals in public, for two year old offences which could charitably be described as errors of judgement, errors of judgement made at a time when the people concerned were stressed and tired. At least the people concerned who have been charged, as it were. The managers behind the scenes, those, to my mind, most responsible for the whole sorry business, seem to have escaped public hauling. Plus ça change...
I am just sorry that the whole business could not have been handled, if not in private, at least more privately. That we cannot just trust the appropriate authorities to deal with the matter appropriately - all of which is not helped by the erosion of trust in said authorities, particularly of the elected variety.
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