Corruption and Anti-Corruption in Britain

We may know it when we see it, but corruption is not a fixed concept. Mark Knights explains how 300 years of scandal have forged perceptions of what is – and what is not – corrupt. 

‘A Rough Sketch of the Times as Delineated by Sir Francis Burdett’, by Thomas Rowlandson, 1810. Metropolitan Museum of Art.
‘A Rough Sketch of the Times as Delineated by Sir Francis Burdett’, by Thomas Rowlandson, 1810. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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