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Let’s embrace, not resist, corruption, it’s something we do well, home and abroad

When I heard that yet another international company has been distributing “chicken” to win contracts with Government agencies, I had what Americans call the “aha” moment.

Well, that sounds like the effort of one clearing the throat after getting some chunky meat down the windpipe, the sort of thing that happens when there is too much on the plate, and one ends up behaving like the dog that dumps its bone in the river to pick the one caught in the reflection of the water.

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