Flagrant cheating is undermining society’s interests

Neither of our main political parties appears capable of challenging the great neoconservative story, nor of expressing our collective wish to punish cheats and cry for fairness. Labour in power ignored the opportunity, even if now there is a deathbed repentance. Philosophically, the Tories do not object to great inequality and distrust deploying public power to punish cheats. So cheating becomes standard — and, depressingly, everyone knows it.