To Serve My Friends
Jonathan Parry, 27 January 2022
Trust and Distrust: Corruption in Office in Britain and Its Empire, 1600-1850
by Mark Knights.
Oxford, 488 pp., £35, December 2021,978 0 19 879624 4 Show More
by Mark Knights.
Oxford, 488 pp., £35, December 2021,
“... and this has required them to emphasise the uniqueness of its misdoings. Even so, history may supply some useful parallels.The shock of the pandemic has exposed some uncomfortable truths about the modern British state: its vast emergency powers, but also its unpreparedness for the unexpected, its scope for inefficiency under lax leadership, and its ... ”