Everyone Was Paid to Notice. Nobody Did.

Two professors spent years explaining a multi-billion-pound pension misjudgement in plain English. In the Midlands, commissioners, councils, universities and public bodies all looked the other way.

This is not a technical oversight. It is not an accounting quirk. It is not the sort of mistake that only reveals itself with hindsight.

It is a prolonged collapse of judgement, spread across an entire region.

For years, two…