A corrupting culture - Secrecy facilitates scandals

DESPITE the corrupting secrecy that does so much to block the advance of our social, political, economic, educational and legal development, we have been exposed to a litany of horrors over the last few years.

Our recent history has been defined by one scandal after another.

We’ve had the Ferns, Murphy and Ryan reports into a corrupt Catholic Church and the medieval cruelties of some institutions and paedophile clerics.