Most staff do not have the skills to cope with such challenging patients, who too often receive impersonal care and suffer from boredom, the first National Audit of Dementia found. It says hospitals should introduce dementia champions.

Across the US, candidates traditionally attend rallies, barbecues and similar jollities in their states and districts.

Say to the Court, it glowes, and shines like rotten wood; Say to the Church, it shewes whats good, and doth no good: If Church and Court reply, then giue them both the lye.

The Committee is actually registered as a business, the authorities said, a thread from the spool of legitimacy to go along with the hard hats, the clipboards and the videocameras.