Trying to make sense of the legal aid tender

Thursday, 02 September 2010 Before In the Loop there was Yes Minister, the latter contrasting with the former in airing only the mildest of profanities. One sprang to mind when considering the family legal aid tender. ‘Minister, if you must do this damn silly thing,’ the mandarin Sir Humphrey Appleby advises the hapless Jim Hacker, ‘don't do it in this damn silly way’...