Quality has fluctuated too reaching its zenith in Beatrice Webb's minority report to the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws in 1909 (which first floated the idea of the National Health Service) and its nadir in the 1923 report of the Royal Commission on the Fire Brigades, where 10 of the 11 commissioners, including the chairman, signed one or more notes of dissent.
ECONOMIST: Sins of commission | The