My paper “Bureaucracy and Distrust: the Civil Service in the Constitution” has been published in Current Legal Problems. It looks at the UK civil service’s constitutional foundations, and how it might respond to a populist govt. It's open access.
currentlegalproblems.org/article/bure...
Faith in democracy and established institutions seems to be at a low ebb. Democratic backsliding – the weakening or evisceration of institutions designed…