MI9 was formed in late 1940 as a result of conversations during 1939 with servicemen who had escaped during the First World War. It was a department of thw War Office intended to train servicemen in … (View Post)

The gratuitous insults might have made those behind her feel a bit better, but with zero political impact, as you say. The most convincing part of the speech was the closing section with its attempt … (View Post)

I was once in Barts for a week of tests at scheduled intervals, and during the hours in between used to go over the road to the Old Bailey and sit in on some trials. That was an insight into a rarifi… (View Post)

I'm strongly in favour of jury trials, tempered only by my experience of once having done it. (View Post)

History offers plenty of parallel, or at least proximate, case studies from which the attentive might learn. (View Post)