I'd like to think that was the case. Unfortunately, there is an (economically self-defeating) incentive to cripple the SFO beyond mere cost-cutting measures. T

I'd like to think that was the case. Unfortunately, there is an (economically self-defeating) incentive to cripple the SFO beyond mere cost-cutting measures. The same incentive is not true for reduced budgets at other organs of government. The scale of damage is jaw-droppingly huge and largely unacknowledged. Whilst the media are weirdly obsessed with street crime, white collar crime in the US (and one suspects, in the UK) is bigger than all other crimes combined: "Contrary to the common perception, the most dangerous criminal is not a youth in a hoody, but a middle aged man in a suit." https://whistlinginthewind.org/2013/06/24/the-other-kind-of-crime/ https://whistlinginthewind.org/2013/06/24/the-other-kind-of-... It's more than a little depressing to see Britain slumping into corruption - or as Pope puts it “Vice is a monster of so frightful mien As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.” - Alexander Pope, Essay on Man (1734)