When politicians obsess about money, corruption is inevitable

This is a fascinating British take on political corruption. It comes in the wake of the ‘cash for peerage’ scandal in that country.
Corruption in our political life is more prevalent now, and in relative terms more shocking, than it has ever been. I know about your Walpoles, but that was in an age before the Reform Acts, when everything about the acquisition of power, in either House, was as bent as a nine-bob note. More…