Something else of national significance happened in July 1948: Britain's National Health Service opened for business, and immediately, doctors were overrun by women with completely prolapsed wombs, toothless men, shortsighted children millions of people who had lived with inconveniences and minor disabilities that made their lives more difficult, but who couldn't previously afford to correct them.

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Because at the end of the day, the NTSB can try to pass all the laws it wants, but if people don't get caught, then the law is toothless.

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But even the relatively toothless Welsh Assembly will have the power to scrutinise and alter the administration of Wales, and so give its people a greater sense of participation in their own government.

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