inspiring a lot- of confidence at all. bronwen, our confidence might have been shaken even more in the way we're governed by the three reports this week into the lex greensill affair. this is about a businessman who seems to have had — as one enquiry put it — "a remarkable degree of influence inside government". no—one seems entirely clear how he was appointed, who was responsible for him, but he ended up employing a former prime minister who got his reputation burned by lobbying on his behalf. he didn't break any rules, a committee said that may be because the rules were too weak and aren't as good as they should be and effective enough. have we become a bit complacent about our model of government in this country? i think so, but it is interesting — we are in transition from the old model, which was all about rules and unspoken conventions and relying, really, on a club of people to keep those