Tackling insurance fraud - Cheats get a free run, we pay the price

Even in a country where constructive ambiguities are almost as important as water or oxygen our well-established culture of legislate-and-ignore seems a hypocrisy too far; an institutionalised three-card trick that indulges the less attractive sides of our character.

Our commitment to the rule of law, to active civic morality, is limited and what a heavy price we pay for this play-pretend foolishness.