ONCE BRITISH IMPERIAL AMBITION coloured the map of the globe pink. Now it must surely be largely green with envy, as there are so many things in Britain for the rest of the world to covet: our judges, our police, our BBC, our NHS, of course, and perhaps most impressively of all, our civil service.
While the Westminster model might have fallen into rancid partisanship across the Anglosphere, Whitehall has not yet let us down. Northcote-Trevelyan still rules. Where other public bureaucracies suffer from corruption, inefficiency, politics