Keeping mum
Stephen Sedley, 2 March 1989
The Spycatcher Trial
by Malcolm Turnbull.
Heinemann, 228 pp., £12.95, October 1988,0 434 79156 3 Show More
by Malcolm Turnbull.
Heinemann, 228 pp., £12.95, October 1988,
Reform of the Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act 1911: Government White Paper
HMSO, 16 pp., £2.60, June 1988,0 10 104082 2 Show More
HMSO, 16 pp., £2.60, June 1988,
“... England as he imagined it would be in 1953, accurately linked the mandarin élitism of the Civil Service with its determination to control the supply of public information. What is new in the present decade is the assumption of power by a government which shares this determination but which also has definite and disturbing ends in view. Nevertheless the ... ”