In a previous issue of The Salisbury Review, our favorite doctor points out the moral shortcomings, general incompetence, financial wastefulness, and increasingly ideologically driven state of British public administration: its vast army of bureaucrats, corrupt contractors, overpaid consultants, and ineffective police.

Slowly and reluctantly, I have come to the conclusion that Britain is a very corrupt country indeed – worse than, say, France. It is corrupt, of course, in its own way, that is to say, slyly, indirectly, surreptitiously, and with a good leavening of hypocrisy. Outward forms of institutions are often maintained, more or less, but they are eviscerated of their meaning.