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The debate around prostate screening revolves around an imperfect test and the trade-off between finding some men’s aggressive cancers earlier and the harms of diagnosing and treating slow-growing tumours that would never have affected a man’s health or lifespan.

But all democracies have been imperfect.

We had a first founding after the revolution that created our first deeply flawed, imperfect democracy.

Exit polls are imperfect, but they suggest where each party gained and lost votes since 2020.

This is an imperfect practice at best, and one that has never been applied uniformly.