Where, exactly, was the First Division Association in 1974, when
Permanent Secretary at the Department of Industry, Sir Anthony Part,
proceeded to undermine the implementation of Labour Party policies, as
agreed by conference and printed in the election manifesto, by Tony
Benn?
How things have ch
Penners
For some reason it is the Independent that is covering the machinations
going on behind the intermittently impenetrable walls of the British
state. This time it concerns Blair's reorganisation of the civil service
machinery around the office of the Prime Minister, and the developing
use o
Penners
That this report should have been leaked at all suggests a preliminary,
softening-up phase in which a pending reorganisation, featuring the
usual assortment of winners and losers, is gently revealed. The issues
tackled by Spedding are hardly new. From the early days of the Northern
Irelan
Security service 'turf wars' hamper war against crime
By Jason Bennetto, Crime Correspondent
The Independent, 28 August 2001
Turf wars and rivalry between
Britain's intelligence agencies are
damaging the fight against
organised crime, a confidential
report by the former head of MI6
has
