
Trust in institutions has taken a battering over the past decade. Rank these broken promises from the most ethically damaging to the least.
Put the items in your preferred order.

The Post Office Horizon cover-up
Innocent people lost livelihoods, homes and even their lives while executives reportedly knew the software was faulty. A betrayal of ordinary workers by the institution meant to employ them.

Partygate during lockdown
While families said goodbye to dying relatives through iPad screens, Downing Street staff gathered with suitcases of booze. A moral fracture between rulers and ruled.

The Grenfell Tower failures
Residents raised alarms about fire safety for years and were dismissed. Corporate and regulatory negligence turned a tower block into a tomb.

The infected blood scandal
Thousands were knowingly given contaminated blood products, then gaslit for forty years while seeking answers. A slow betrayal across generations.

Broken tuition fee pledges
Students were promised fees would not rise, then watched them triple. A smaller wound than the others, but a formative lesson in political dishonesty.
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