This is the opening to my essay on government attempts to cover-up a catastrophic data breach on the Afghan resettlement scheme, published in the Observer on 20 July 2025. You can read the full version in the Observer. It is a cliche that a cover-up is usually worse than the cock-up it is attempting to conceal. In the case of the Afghan superinjunction, the story of which was finally revealed last week, the cock-up – a data breach that potentially handed […]

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