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This failure of leadership which produced the fiasco of the evacuation – and Marshall makes clear what an unnecessary mess it was – has broader implications. Is it one more symptom of the hollowing out and decay of the British state? Is not the situation now worse than in Kipling’s day? He snarled at the way that the guilty authors of a calamitous campaign had “sidled back to power” due to their political friends and connections. More

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