S9 Ep35: The success of the embedded state

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Jun 26, 202620:21Science & Medicine

Who kept the courts sitting and the streetlights lit when the state had almost no money to pay anyone? Two hundred years ago, British local government ran on unpaid labour. In a parliamentary survey of the boroughs from...

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