Sixty years on: How the Profumo affair ended the age of deference
The political scandal to end all scandals happened 60 years ago today.
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The political scandal to end all scandals happened 60 years ago today.
Analysis: allegations of blackmail levelled against government whips spotlight an operation meant to work in the dark
In defence of the long lunch: Business needs the human touch Eliot Wilson is co-founder of Pivot Point and a former House of Commons official. No-one quite knows when the long lunch suffered a mortal blow. Perhaps it was the financial crisis of 2007-08, when money lost its lustre. Perhaps it was before that, in the 1980s, when US working cultures flooded the City of London after the Big Bang. The grim phrase “al desko” was first recorded in the Washington Post 40 years ago, so the rot has a long history. Now, in the aftermath of the pandemic, with employees habituated t...