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Just as the seasoned roué can but guess at the number of his bastard offspring, the Commonwealth government gropes vainly for a tally of public bodies it has spawned. According to the 2014 Commission of Audit, there are ‘about’ 900 of them. Such is their rampancy, that the audit commissioners recommended a national register to keep track of them, like vexatious litigants or paedophiles.
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Daniel Ward is completing post-graduate law at Magdalen College, Oxford.
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