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Is there rot at the top?
Ever since the Owen Paterson affair, political commentators have been accusing the government of corruption. Boris Johnson in reply assured us that the UK “is not remotely a corrupt country”. Confusingly, they are all right, says Robert Barrington. It all turns on what is meant by corruption.
State capture
Johnson, for example, might be correct, but it’s not what was alleged. It’s possible for a government to be corrupt, even if the country isn’t – although once the rot has set in at the top, we should expect it to spread and the
