When I first heard about the appalling acid (as we then thought) attack on a woman and two children in south London, these were my slightly garbled first thoughts:
The fiasco over the future of the old RAF base at Linton-on-Ouse betrays not only the deep divisions between Whitehall’s fiefdoms but also the depths of ineptitude and secrecy within the biggest of them.
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