Published: 19 May 2019 John Lippitt, who has died aged 90, was an unorthodox, swashbuckling civil servant who dominated British industrial policy in the 1970s and later became a commercial negotiator for GEC in China and South East Asia. When in 1980 he was persuaded...
The exploitation of leaks is leaving politicians terrified of making any decisions, writes Ruth Dudley Edwards Published: 16 February 2018 I was about to begin writing about rumours, distortions, meaningless Civil Service drafts, pointless speculation and other linked...