...need to use this period of gloom and doom to sharpen the knives on public expenditure’4. Advisers such as David Willetts and John Redwood consistently write memos in a very...
...Nearby in Long Acre, a high-explosive bomb penetrated the basement of Odham’s Printing Works, which was being used as a temporary shelter, killing 38 people. Londoners subjected to regular raids,...
...counsel to the king. Their meetings were mostly frequently referred to as ‘councils’, although in the reign of Henry II we do see some early use of the French term...
...of mankind ... in due course of time’. Gunboat diplomacy The only remarkable thing about the Don Pacifico affair then was its use of gunboats to promote these values. But...
...do, “entering, indexing and sorting the various documents taken in to be filed, and other duties of a like nature, but I should confine their use to this class of...
...be used to illustrate Macmillan’s political techniques, such as his use of the launch of the Russian satellite Sputnik in 1957 to drive the resumption of nuclear information sharing with...
...finally purchased by the British Government for £47,625 (equivalent to £3m-£4m in current cash terms, depending upon the calculator used). The first Director of the National Stud appointed by the...
...experience and was nicknamed the ‘Who? Who?’ ministry (supposedly because the Duke of Wellington appeared not to recognise the names of the new ministers when they were announced). Derby was...
...Licences. Walpole was able to dominate government policymaking. He did so partly because of his political skills and because he held a position that Prime Ministers generally ceased to occupy...
...Redwood used so effectively? The Policy Unit The Policy Unit was established by Prime Minister Harold Wilson in March 1974. Wilson ’felt that he needed more political and policy advice...