2012 - Picking up the Pieces

I was just browsing the BBC website and it struck me what early 2012 will be remembered for. It's like a building has just fallen down, and in the rubble and debris is all the shortcuts, flaws and dirty secrets from the bosses desk. Firstly the leveson enquiry, a long drawn out affair, in which slowly but surely almost every paper and high ranking police officer is being shown to be unethical and immoral. Furthermore, people are beginning to see the massive bonuses that the executives have always paid themselves. The failings don't stop there. Structural problems and wasted debt shows us that actually, despite years of brilliant growth, the building of society was slowly being ebbed away by careless caretakers. 2011 was when it all fell, 2012 is when we have to face up to it and recognise what an almighty mess we are in.
It can only get better, I think...