David Aaronovitch- The Uncomfortable Truth

From the murky water of doubt emerges an uncomfortable truth

"It isn't the failure to act in New Orleans that is the story here, it's the sheer, uninsured, uncared for, self-disenfranchised scale of the poverty that lies revealed. It looks like a scene from the Third World because that's the truth. It's a quiet disaster that's been going on for years - a pudding-basin-full-of-poverty situation."

David Aaronovitch from The Times