INTIMACY OF POWER - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook INTIMACY OF POWER write by ALUN. EVANS. This book was released on 2024. INTIMACY OF POWER available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Intimacy of Power: An insight into private office, Whitehall's most sensitive network
The Intimacy of Power: An insight into private office, Whitehall's most sensitive network - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Intimacy of Power: An insight into private office, Whitehall's most sensitive network write by Alun Evans. This book was released on 2024-05-28. The Intimacy of Power: An insight into private office, Whitehall's most sensitive network available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes in the corridors of power during a major crisis or after a ministerial reshuffle? How do new government ministers get to grips with their portfolios and priorities? Who guides and supports them? And why, sometimes – during events such as 'Partygate' – do things go wrong? In this meticulously researched book, former senior civil servant Alun Evans lifts the lid on a vital but little-known cog in the machinery of government: private office and the private secretaries who work within it. Private secretaries exercise huge influence, and yet most of us have never heard of them. They are the ones who manage the flow of work, who whisper quietly in ministers' ears and who have been Prime Ministers' closest, most trusted and most discreet confidants. At critical moments in our national history – from the Falklands War to the Westland affair, from Black Wednesday to the 2008 financial crash, from New Labour to the coalition government – they have been central but hidden players. With exceptional access to former Prime Ministers and decision-makers, Evans explores what private office is and why it matters to British democracy. He argues that following the egregious constitutional breaches of Boris Johnson's premiership, private office must once again be taken seriously so it can return to being the independent junction box of government and a vital part of the British constitution.
The Spy Who Came in from the Circus
The Spy Who Came in from the Circus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Spy Who Came in from the Circus write by Christopher Andrew. This book was released on 2024-04-18. The Spy Who Came in from the Circus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For almost half a century, Bertram Mills Circus was a household name throughout Britain among both children and adults and it's Director, Cyril Bertram Mills, was one of the best-known and most influential names in the country's entertainment business. But for forty years, Cyril Mills had also enjoyed a top-secret and wide-ranging career in British intelligence: obtaining the best aerial intelligence on Nazi rearmament for MI6 before the Second World War; becoming the first case officer to monitor the best double agent (Garbo) of the war after joining MI5; and working part-time during the Cold War 'for MI5 or 6 or both without being paid a penny'. Remarkably, no word of Mills's secret career appeared in public until he was over eighty. Nobody suspected that the glamorous world of pre-war circus entertainment had been an extraordinarily fitting rehearsal for the lethal arena of deception and surveillance. In this remarkable true story, Christopher Andrew, best-selling official biographer of MI5, brings to life one of the most surprising and fascinating tales of espionage ever told.
Bandit Country
Bandit Country - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bandit Country write by Toby Harnden. This book was released on 2024-04-18. Bandit Country available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A NEW EDITION OF ONE OF THE MOST CELEBRATED BOOKS ON THE TROUBLES Branded as 'Bandit Country' by the British government, South Armagh was the heartland of the Provisional IRA. It was the rebel Irish stronghold where Thomas 'Slab' Murphy reigned supreme, bomb attacks on England were planned and the SAS tracked the IRA snipers who hunted British soldiers. In this acclaimed and remarkable book – originally published in 1999 – Toby Harnden, winner of the Orwell Prize, brings to bear his skills as a fearless journalist, inspired investigator and gifted historian, threatened with imprisonment for protecting his sources in Northern Ireland but undeterred. He draws on secret documents and unsparing interviews with key protagonists on both sides to produce perhaps the most compelling and essential account of the IRA and the Troubles.
Screwed
Screwed - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Screwed write by Ian Acheson. This book was released on 2024-04-11. Screwed available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Daniel Khalife escaped from Wandsworth in September 2023, the nation got a glimpse into the heart of the prison system, and what they saw there was chaos. This came as no surprise to Ian Acheson, who had spent years warning of the disasters to come. Screwed is the inside story of the collapse of His Majesty's Prison Service, told by someone who had a front-row seat to it all. Acheson went from officer to Governor in less than a decade, and during that time he witnessed the uniformed organisation he was proud to serve crumble into lethal disarray. This uncompromisingly brutal account exposes the politics and operational decisions that have driven our prisons to a state where rats roam freely, prisoners are forced to use slop buckets, violence and intimidation are normalised and it is easier to get a bag of heroin than a bar of soap. Concluding that the crisis is not unfixable, however, Acheson outlines a new corporate culture and mission that puts its faith in the officers who walk the landings every day: order restored, potential rescued, society safeguarded.
