O! What a Fall was There: Reflections on the Decline of Britain
Mini Teaser: Nearly one hundred years ago, Brooks Adams published a short essaycalled "The Decay of England.
By this time the wheel had come full circle. Those who were meant to
be the servants of the state were resisting its policies. In the
civil service--whose salaries, it should be noted, were fully indexed
against inflation--there were those who were ready to leak documents
to the political opponents of government. It was an irony that the