So British parties are forced by their habits and the defects of our political culture – and by the aggression of a partisan media – to lead a Jekyll and Hyde existence.
However, many of the defects in British industrial output once blamed on the unions – some of them correctly – are still there in the shape of low productivity linked to underinvestment, sloppy management and inferior products that are not marketed or sold abroad in sufficient numbers.
A review ordered by the home secretary, Theresa May, into claims of corruption in the Lawrence case found "defects in the level of information that the MPS revealed to the inquiry".
"This issue was raised in the Stephen Lawrence Independent Review by Mark Ellison QC, published on 6 March, where he concluded there were defects in the level of information that the MPS revealed to the Inquiry".
But the risk is that people will start identifying politics with Islam and the prophets and as soon as they spot political defects, they will blame Islam".
She didn't just see Baghdad but found a way to Fallujah, and witnessed the disturbing sign of birth defects likely caused by US-fired depleted uranium.
David Bott, an aviation lawyer at Bott & Co, who represented Huzar, said around 90% of the 15,000 flight delay claims on its books have been refused because of technical defects.
There are many cases of birth defects and cancer in the families of farmworkers.
He discusses in detail such structural defects as the lack of political participation and accountability, destroying, in the process, several myths, including that of fabulous riches: the combined GDP of the eight is about the same as Switzerland's.
It is an even more amazing tale: a poor provincial boy astonishes everyone with his dancing, joins the Kirov ballet company, goes on tour with them, thrills Paris, is fingered by the KGB, defects spectacularly and, at 23, takes the West by storm partnering its greatest ballerina, Margot Fonteyn, aged 42.
According to @Stake, a security consultancy based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 70% of security defects are due to flaws in software design.
