Yui Mok / Reuters It’s been an exciting summer for fans of parliamentary reform in the Anglosphere. On July 26, a British tabloid published front-page photos of Lord John Sewel, a 69-year-old member of the House of Lords, wearing an orange bra and little else as he allegedly used cocaine with sex workers. He resigned from the Lords two days later and now faces criminal investigation. That same month, Canadian police filed 31 charges against Senator Mike Duffy in connection with a bribery scandal that could topple Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government. The scandals have raised an old question for …read more
Source: The Atlantic
