Even though billions of taxpayers' euros had to be diverted into the banking system to ensure its survival the banks continue to behave disgracefully, refusing to loan to small and medium enterprises, harassing households with mortgage problems, overcharging customers for going into the red by merely a few euros, etc.
There were good reasons that 10 years ago the Labour government decided to invite Polish labour into the country earlier than it needed to, a decision from which they have disgracefully stepped back now for reasons of political expediency.
Most disgracefully, on 11 January 2011, Michèle Alliot-Marie, the French minister of state for justice, defence and home affairs, stood before the National Assembly in Paris and declared that the revolt in Tunisia was "a complex situation" and that it was not for the French government to "give any lessons to the regime".
The "paleocons" have always disliked the neocons, sometimes (disgracefully) just because they are Jewish.
Of course, we couldn't afford it, as we imprison such a disgracefully huge portion of our population, and in often sub-human conditions.
Increasingly, if disgracefully, this seems to be the line that the British government is inclined to take.Lieutenant-colonel William Pender (Retired) Salisbury, WiltshireUkrainian opinionSIR – I think your observations about Ukraine's democracy are sometimes one-sided ("Dear Viktor, you're dead, love Dmitry", August 22nd).
Indian society has always treated tribals disgracefully, he says, and after decades of neglect and insensitivity, "we have produced a situation where Maoists fill the vacuum".
Since the previous election he has twice prorogued parliament for disgracefully lengthy periods, the second time to avoid awkward questions about whether his officials lied to the house about the treatment of detainees in Afghanistan.
Instead of refusing point blank to help a dictator launder his dirty image, UNESCO's board and staff disgracefully considered accepting.
Mr Odinga will hammer away at Mr Kibaki's broken promises, particularly on corruption, which has gone disgracefully unpunished.
But the conflicts of interest inherent to investment banks became disgracefully sharper during the long 1990s bull market.Supposedly independent analysts working behind Chinese walls were paid millions of dollars, not for the quality of their advice to investors but for helping to secure corporate-finance deals from the companies they were analysing.
