It's been a year of reckoning – for banks, a cricket team and the nation | Peter Lewis

If 2018 were a show, it would be a morality play where the consequences of business as usual came home to roost

2018 will go down as the year that reality finally caught up; a national reckoning after a decade of cultural neglect driven by the conviction that the prize was more important than the purpose.

The flashpoints were brutal truth-tellings that toppled leaders and confronted us all with our complicity. But what was more off-putting was the way that one followed the next until they all became part of something bigger and even more significant, the hollowing out of some of our once most cherished institutions.

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