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With politicians increasingly sabotaging the machinery of government worldwide, our only protection lies in the civil service, judiciary, police and security services

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  • The Assault on the State: How the Global Attack on Modern Government Endangers Our Future

    Stephen E. Hanson and Jeffrey S. Kopstein

    Polity Books, pp. 182, £20

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