An ever-building air of crisis around coalition

So much for the new politics, promised by the coalition, that imagined world of transparency, efficiency and, yes, accountability.

So much for the new politics, promised by the coalition, that imagined world of transparency, efficiency and, yes, accountability. The last week has shown how little real change has happened, with a government scrambling to shore itself up, incredible revelations and a bizarre litany of explanations offered, many scarcely believable. Instead of a brave new world these last weeks of crisis have, instead, had many echoes of the past.

Consider how much of ...