Since he became Prime Minister David Cameron has made three statements to the House of Commons in response to important reports into failures of the state. The first was the report on ‘Bloody Sunday’, the second on the Hillsborough report and the third, yesterday, was the Francis Report.
Of course all three of these reports investigated very different sorts of failures. But importantly all three of them relate to failures by government to listen to what they were being told, again and again, by the public. In all three cases the public, who were telling the truth, saw cover-ups by different parts of the state.
