Resolving the housing crisis - Our faith in convention has failed

AT the dawning, unfolding stages of a scandal, it is usual to suggest that the majority of those in an organisation facing earth-shattering allegations are innocent and that only a tiny minority of their colleagues are wrongdoers. 

The innocent-until-proven-guilty theory is cloned with the a-few-rotten-apples hope because we struggle to conceive that an institution or a process once held in the highest regard should have rendered ineffective low standards or corruption.

The first allegations of clerical child abuse were so shocking it was impossible to grasp the scale of the cancer.