Book review: How Corrupt is Britain?

DAVID WHYTE opens his edited collection, How Corrupt is Britain?, by arguing that “the idea that British institutions are fair and democratic is one of the foundation stones of our self-imagined national heritage”.

Book review: How Corrupt is Britain?
Sat, 25 Apr, 2015 - 01:00
Britain — and probably Ireland — are not corrupt like Russia but, Niamh Hourigan finds corruption is everyday and entrenched — and rarely successfully challenged

David Whyte (ed)

Pluto Press, €25.50; ebook, €23.60 

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