British democracy has been through an extended nervous breakdown in recent years and has yet to emerge the other side, though it is to be hoped that a General Election due in 2024 might prove to be the trigger for a gradual process of recovery. As if all that weren't bad enough, Boris Johnson's opportunist seizure of power - his outrageous Trump-like attempt to prorogue Parliament, his 2019 election victory on a fraudulent manifesto, and the...