Organ Transplants

When your PM is grinning at the lectern as he explains his cunning ruse for getting around the rules — cutting the judges out of the process of reviewing any laws passed in the Commons — you know your constitutional arrangements are being rejigged in a thoroughly non-transparent manner.

Note how the Sovereignty of Parliament can be turned on and off like a tap by the UK’s current government.

 

Here in Guatemala the fundamental problem is co-option of other organs of state by the executive. In the UK it is more like selective de-optioning or exclusion of them. (The problem is not so much the MP as the PM!)

Meanwhile, Putin sidesteps all the faux reticence: anyone found loitering near the Finnish border tends to end up in combat fatigues down near the south-western border.