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This week’s spate of scandals have re-energised public interest in proposals to clean up parliament. All three main parties included remarkably similar proposals in their manifestos, yet little progress has been made under the current government. In his excellent book...

In Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 classic, The 39 Steps, Robert Donat’s character is on the run from the British authorities and a network of foreign spies, being chased through the streets of a small Scottish town. In desperation, he opens a door at random and is...