As luck would have it, I just chanced upon an article that concerns a new book about corruption in Britain. Entitled How Corrupt is Britain? (London: Pluto Press, 2015), it was edited by David Whyte from the University of Liverpool. The article mocks Transparency International’s corruption perception index, according to which Britain is currently ranked fourteenth among one-hundred and seventy-seven countries. In particular, the index is biased against poor nations. Rich countries are rife with corruption in the banking system, for instance. The list is staggering: fraudulent pension sales, endowment mortgage fraud, the payment protection insurance scam, insider trading, and so on. All things considered, these forms of corruption are much worse than mere bribes in poor nations. Well put. And just in time, too. For all the corruption in Croatia, which has been uppermost in my mind for a few days, it is the human species that is at issue rather than any particular nation. Transparency International’s corruption perception index is for the birds. In terms of corruption, humans beat all the other species by a wide margin.