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What the British Government needs is a slice of Emmental cheese. In fact several slices. Swiss cheese has holes in it, but usually no two slices are the same. What it also needs is a “safety culture”, also sometimes called a “just culture”, as used in the aviation industry worldwide and increasingly in the practice of medicine. This is the right answer to Dominic Cummings. It was invented, incidentally, in Britain. It has doubtless saved many lives.

Something went badly wrong in the initial response of Boris Johnson’s Government at the start of the Covid-19 pandemic more than a year ago. Even the Daily Telegraph, scathing about Cummings’ display before joint House of Commons select committees, could not deny that what went on was a “shambles”.