Software engineer Jonathan Larmour lives outside Cambridge and is worried about taking his eight-year-old son to a Judo session at the ExCel Centre, which begins at 0930 BST, because of the clash with the morning rush hour.

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In the view of Peter Larmour, a specialist on the Pacific islands at the Australian National University in Canberra, corruption is better tackled by reducing institutional opportunities for it, rather than by dictatorial moral crusades from a strong-arm regime that sets itself up as detective, judge and juror.

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