[Link] UK officials still blocking Peter Wright’s ‘embarrassing’ Spycatcher files

Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

The Cabinet Office has been accused of “delay and deception” over its blocking of the release of files dating back more than three decades that reveal the inside story of the intelligence agent Peter Wright and the Spycatcher affair.

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[Link] Johnson makes ‘unbelievably crass’ joke about Thatcher closing coal mines

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

On a visit to Scotland on Thursday, the prime minister made a number of provocative comments, stating that a second referendum on Scottish independence is “about as far from the top of my agenda as it is possible to be”.

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