None above the law

Both the UK and US are facing populist threat

The two major democracies of the Anglosphere have centuries of democratic history and precedent to call upon — and yet appear besieged by populism, which is asking questions of their institutions that have no easy answers. Over the past week, former British prime minister Boris Johnson resigned from his seat in Parliament shortly before reports suggested he would be censured by an internal ethics committee. Across the pond, former United States president Donald Trump was the subject of an extraordinary indictment from prosecutors for his apparent failure to turn over classified documents after he left office in 2021. Both populists