Without a duty of candour, the next cover-up will just be the next disaster

Plus: No, immigrants are not getting all the council housing

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The longer read: on candour and disasters

On Wednesday, the BBC homepage induced an odd sense of cognitive dissonance - one major live blog was recording Boris Johnson’s appearance before the Covid Inquiry while the other was recording events in Westm…