In pre-inquiry hearings, high court judges accused the MoD of a "lamentable" failure to disclose information, including complaints made by detainees to the Red Cross.
He wants to set up a new technocratic committee that could mandate changes to the hugely expensive Medicare system of health care for the elderly (an idea that cleverly takes such difficult decisions out of the hands of politicians, who have displayed a lamentable failure to grapple with them).
In a lamentable failure of intelligence, the CIA and MI6 didn't even know he existed – at school in Switzerland, right under their noses – until a Japanese sushi chef popped up saying actually Kim Jong-il had three sons not two, and liked his baby best.
That it was afflicted by "institutional paralysis", and that there was a "lamentable failure" by Railtrack to respond to earlier incidents involving signals on the Ladbroke Grove section of track outside Paddington.
But the warning signs were not spotted and a serious case review has found a "lamentable failure" by management at Hillside First School in Weston-super-Mare.
As Henry has pointed out together with Homeland actor David Harewood, who writes in the Observer today, British television has already lost talent, creative breadth and BAME viewers because of its lamentable failure to look in the mirror and name the colour of the face it sees.
The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse has heard a "catalogue of lamentable failures" by the Church of England over the past three weeks, including cover-up, conspiracy and the burning of documents, its presiding panel was told.
