More cheques than balances

The collapse of public standards and how we might restore them

Calling for a new ethical social contract, John Bowers KC says there are “too many cheques and not enough balances” in the UK’s political and constitutional structures.

“Morality sometimes seems to have become divorced from standards,” he writes in his new book Downward Spiral, to be published this month by Manchester University Press.

He continues:

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