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SCOTLANDS best-known historian has said Boris Johnsons honours list "tarnished irrevocably" his own knighthood.

The honours system is rife with abuse and a paper by Lynton Crosby’s firm suggesting ‘rewards’ for compliant peers proves it, says former prime minister Gordon Brown

This prime minister is a reminder of an era when government jobs were sold and political leverage was bought with cash, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

Politics in Britain at the end of the eighteenth century was described as the “Old Corruption”. The state was, at every level, in the hands of the great landowners and their allies. It was used to serve their interests, to protect their wealth and privilege, and they ruthlessly pillaged it to further enrich themselves. Place and position were wholly at their disposal. What made all this possible was the enormous scale of social and economic inequality. This Old Corruption came under sustain...