Triple-murderer Valdo Calocane was free to kill three innocent people in Nottingham in 2023 because of systemic failings with his NHS care, a major report has found. Calocane’s risk was not “fully understood, managed, documented or communicated” by his local NHS trust prior to his heinous murderous rampage in which he stabbed to death students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar and caretaker Ian Coates, concluded the report led by Themis Consulting.

It is one of the most shocking indictments yet of how broken Britain has become. Yesterday, the victims families’ heartbroken relatives shared how widespread the failings were at a press conference. Their anger and disgust were palpable.

The independent report released by NHS England revealed how Calocane had not had any contact with mental health services or his GP for about nine months prior to the killings, even though he was known to have paranoid schizophrenia. Incredibly, he was not forced to take his anti-psychotic medication because he did not like needles.

We also learned that other patients also under the care of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, some of whom had been discharged, had also perpetrated acts of “serious violence” across 15 incidents between 2019 and 2023.

Yet nothing was done. Who knows how many more ticking bombs are waiting in our midst?

This report once again highlights how “the system got it wrong”, a phrase that has become the story of our nation, repeated again and again with very little ever changing. We’ve become a country comfortable in our failure, like a child left in a soiled nappy.

Can anyone tell me if any system still works in this country? Because I’m struggling to find it. When it comes to care, policing or health, how many more people have to die before we fix what the “system got wrong”?

In fact, the failings in our mental health services are just the tip of the iceberg. On policing and basic public protection, the country is still reeling from the horrors of the Southport killings.

It is beyond comprehension that someone who was such a known threat to the public, including being thrice reported to the Prevent anti-terror programme and caught by police with a knife at least ten times, was not institutionalised. Social workers refused to go to Axel Rudakubana’s house without a police escort, yet somehow, he was still allowed to roam the streets.

Such gross negligence has come to characterise modern Britain, where no heads will roll for even the most egregious failures.

We only look at the grooming gangs scandal, which again highlights astonishing institutional errors. For decades, young girls (mainly white and working class) were systemically targeted, groomed, raped and, in some cases, killed by men of predominantly Pakistani heritage.

The bottom line is that these girls were failed. Our institutions were more interested in self-preservation than protecting vulnerable minors from sadistic monsters. The most insulting aspect of this is that many of the council workers responsible either moved on to work for other councils, or retired with full, cushy pensions at the taxpayers’ expense.

Yet the madness doesn’t stop there.

On asylum too, our system has become the butt of jokes. You may recall Abdul Ezedi, the illegal immigrant and failed asylum seeker who maimed a mother and her two daughters in a chemical attack. Despite being denied asylum twice, and after committing a sex offence in 2018, he was eventually granted asylum after his bogus conversion to Christianity meant he couldn’t be deported back to Afghanistan.

After Ezedi’s savage attack, many people rightly asked why he wasn’t deported when he first arrived illegally. Why was he not removed after the first two failed asylum applications? How on earth was he given asylum once he had committed a sex offence that resulted in him being placed on the Sex Offenders Register?

Shockingly, at the time, Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy went on TV to explain that Ezedi’s “asylum status was not the issue of concern”. And that, ladies and gentlemen, is why our systems so often “get it wrong”. Because we are led by people entirely adrift from reality.

I struggle to see how the simple words “broken system” can account for such wilful blindness and utter lack of common sense. Many of these blunders border on criminal negligence.

Whether it’s the Post Office scandal, our ineffective penal system, or the appalling social care system that led to the murder of Sara Sharif by her father and stepmother, you have to wonder when the powers that be will start to wake up.

Perhaps it will take one of their relatives becoming a victim of these broken systems before they act?

In today’s broken Britain, incompetence, poor leadership, and zero accountability have marred our institutions. But we cannot give up. We can no longer afford to just look at how “the system got it wrong” – it’s time for change.