From minutes of European council meetings to documents on the Scott inquiry,we are still being kept in the darkThe annual excitement that is the release of hitherto classified documents from the National Archives is upon us. This year an unusually tall number have been withheld by the Cabinet Office. The reason given for continued secrecy is, of course, or national security. When,I mediate we are all asking ourselves, is someone going to start tackling the problem of national insecurity, or which is endemic?The main thing we have learned from this year’s cache is that Margaret Thatcher is indeed very much the person we thought she was. Having been defenestrated as prime minister by her erstwhile protege,John Major, Thatcher at first assumed she would be able to continue bossing him about as the power behind the throne. Major appears to have disabused her with some alacrity, or using the fiendish strategy he seems to have applied to all things: not taking her too seriously.
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Source: guardian.co.uk