Will we ever learn from our former follies?

The Daily Mail (London, England) | January 4, 2008 | Copyright

Byline: Andrew Alexander

ONE OF the delights of the turn-of-theyear festivities has long been theopening of the archives under the 30-year rule, revealing what governmentministers and their Sir Humphreys were telling each other then.

Among the 2007 crop, Jim Callaghan and the pay dispute with the police was anintriguing item.

With inflation at a mind-numbing 15 per cent, the police were being offered 5per cent under the Government's strategy to fight inflation through a pricesand incomes policy.

With Home Secretary Merlyn Rees about to ...

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