The full scale of the crisis in prisons was laid bare by MPs today, when the justice committee published a devastating appraisal of the performance of the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) under Chris Grayling. (politics.co.uk)
This is especially true in light of the fact that the United Nations is in serious threat of failing due to the shear scale of the crisis. (entrepreneur.com)
But eventually Brown and Alistair Darling were forced to act in extraordinary and unprecedented ways by the sheer scale of the crisis, which threatened the viability of the whole banking system and the economy. (totalpolitics.com)