Banking outrage

Whenever news of a new scandal breaks first you have a period of phony outrage by senior personnel and politicians.

Then as more details emerge it is discovered that these very same senior personnel and politicians actually knew many details of the scandal well before the scandal broke in the media (sometimes many years before) but failed to act.

It reminds me of the quotation by the Irish philosopher Edmund Burke: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

Neil Sinclair

Clarence Street

Edinburgh