Translating Governmentspeak . . . This Week: Lessons That Can Be Learned

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IT must be something to do with being brought up with Sean Connery as James Bond. Stick me in a room with a former British spymaster and I'm quickly looking for something that Q, the gadget man, has given him. The head of MI6 just doesn't walk into a hostile environment without an edge. That's how 007 survives: an Aston Martin with an ejector seat; a push bike that turns into a helicopter. An edge.

Sir John Scarlett recently retired as head of the Secret Intelligence Service. He was chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee ( JIC) from 2001 to 2004, the period that covered the run- up to the invasion of Iraq.

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Translating Governmentspeak . . . This Week: Lessons That Can Be Learned

Last week he gave evidence to the Iraq Inquiry headed by Sir John Chilcot. As the man responsible for "co-ordinated intelli...

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