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Mansion House is crumbling

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Spy is fortunate enough to have attended many Mansion House dinners over the years. The black-tie banquets are terrific fun: great food, choice wines and current resident and host, Lord Mayor Michael Mainelli, is excellent company. But beneath the gleaming, gold-lined walls of its function rooms, Mansion House hides a secret: it is rapidly crumbling.



OPINION - The Democratic Party is a ruthless, election-winning machine (no, really)

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Political parties are essential institutions of democracy. They facilitate political participation, draw up manifestos for government and in healthy systems, act as stabilising forces. But their principal function is to win elections, and so candidate selection forms a fundamental part of that task.

OPINION - The spy who bored me: All the people I knew who became spies are dull — thank goodness

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As a childhood reader of spy novels, I acquired high expectations of the secret world. British spies would be flamboyant and exceptional Bond-types. But looking around the post-university scene, I realise that all the people I knew who became spies are dull. There was the humdrum civil service fast streamer who mysteriously ended up living in Portsmouth, the location of MI6’s training camp, for a few months. Another vanilla acquaintance abandoned post-university travels plans to move to Cheltenham, home of GCHQ. Читать дальше...

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