But he took what appeared to be only partial blame for what went wrong, suggesting at several points that he and his party had done almost everything it could.
The big UK polling companies seriously misjudged the gap between the Conservatives and Labour – probably because of problems caused by differential turnout, as a preliminary investigation into what went wrong suggests – but the pre-election polls provided a good guide as to what was going to happen to the Liberal Democrat, Ukip and Green share of the vote, and in Scotland, too, they were spot on.
The fact that the system was so easily attacked, and Harding was left so clueless about what had gone wrong, suggests there was a lack of such expertise at TalkTalk.
It doesn't take me long to figure out what went wrong, and I suggested a solution that, thankfully, worked.
Various theories about what went wrong have been suggested - including the captain hijacking his own plane.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] disciplineSIR – Your important diagnosis of the trouble with science ("How science goes wrong", October 19th) suggested a number of fixes.
This identified a series of reasons why large-scale public sector IT projects tend to go wrong, and suggested steps to mitigate the risks.
Explain what you thought went wrong last year and start suggesting improvements.
Mr. Bush deflected efforts to inquire further into what went wrong with the occupation, suggesting that such questions should be left to historians, and insisting, as his father used to, that he would resist going "on the couch" to rethink decisions.
The sense that something has gone wrong, he suggests, has become so pervasive that it may well give rise to a surprising renewal of energy in the rising generation.
