Ten years of unlimited power and money have failed to produce the yearned-for modernisation.

A four-lane highway winds past neatly-planted roundabouts to state-of-the-art buildings with manicured lawns, high-tech communications and access to cheap, unlimited power supplies.

The reason was that this was an extreme case where the contracting authority had reserved to itself a virtually unlimited power of amendment, subject only to some limited procedural conditions.

Unlimited power was at his disposal.

It gives the government almost unlimited power to legislate by decree to direct the movements and behaviour of citizens in an emergency, which includes a health crisis.