A balanced and perceptive assessment. But isn’t part of the challenge the absence of a definitive and common view among regulators, professions and government about what the regulators are ‘supposed to do’?

Thanks Neil. @richardmoorhead.bsky.social has done the really heavy lifting; but between us we couldn’t have been clearer about nature and extent of problems, what is missing from current practice, and which way to go. We need a shift to “What is the right thing to do?” + regulatory enforcement.

The problem is that an evidence-based discussion cannot resist external ownership (because that evidence doesn’t exist). So blind prejudice and insult is the only option available in the abject quest to hide self-interested protectionism

If those lawyers were ‘proper professionals’, should they really need even a reminder - let alone a warning?