QUENTIN LETTS: A withering assault on our Establishment...
Brian Langstaff took a Flymo to the mandarinate By Quentin Letts for the Daily Mail Published: 01:30, 21 May 2024 | Updated: 01:49, 21 May 2024 e-mail View comments Controlled, patrician disgust was seldom more devastatingly done. Sir Brian Langstaff's verdict on Whitehall careerists and their cover-up was delivered to hundreds of victims at Westminster's Methodist Central Hall. That great edifice of non-conformism was not a bad place for a withering assault on Establishment shibboleths such as the civil service and the sainted NHS .
Sir Brian, 76, with a speech of gathering force, tore into the 'doctor knows best' belief and officialdom's arrogant omniscience. Authority itself was on trial here. With nicely-weighted exasperation, Sir Brian found it wanting.
In recent years we have been instructed that experts know best. Sir Brian Langstaff, 76, with a speech of gathering force, tore into the 'doctor knows best' belief and officialdom's arrogant omniscience Friends and families of victims of the blood contamination demonstrate at Central London Methodist Hall yesterday Kenneth Clarke, a long-past health secretary, has argued that 'sensible people' like him should run the country without much undue heed to the grubby punters. Sir Brian cut through all that.
His inquiry exposed Clarke and others. 'The public,' said Sir Brian, 'should be trusted with the truth, with all its uncertainties.' Read More DAILY MAIL COMMENT: T.
