"Sleaze" is only part of the story. Flickr/Robert Pittman. Some rights reserved.
Earlier this year, Dr David Whyte posed a pressing question: how corrupt is Britain? Writing for OurKingdom in the lead-up to the General Election, he also laid out his answer:
"Historically, we have constructed corruption as something that is exclusively a problem in developing or economically ‘primitive’ societies, rather than our own. Yet the almost daily reporting of all manner of corruption cases in our most prominent and powerful institutions is beginning to unravel the idea that the British establishment is predicated on civilized values of ‘fairness’, ‘openness’ and ‘transparency’. A seemingly endless conveyor belt of cases has shown no signs of slowing down. Indeed, if anything, it has accelerated."
