1. Samuel Brittan, Steering the Economy (London: Secker and Warburg, 1969), p. 29.
2. The title of a book by David Williams (London: Hutchinson, 1965); see also K. G. Robertson, Public Secrets (London: Macmillan, 1982); Richard A. Chapman and Michael Hunt, eds., Open Government (London: Croom Helm, 1987).
3. Quoted by Anthony Sampson from a 1970 Official Secrets Act trial in The New Anatomy of Britain (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1971), p. 369. See also David Butler, “Cabinet Secrets,” The Listener, 29 February 1968.
4. George Brown, In My Way (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972), p. 105. See also Henry Brandon, In the Red (London: Deutsch, 1966), p. 43.
5. Developments in technology and in the economics of broadcasting are creating pressures for change in government policy. For a review of opinions, see Sir Alan Peacock’s Report of the Committee on Financing the BBC (London: HMSO Cmnd. 9824, 1986); and comments by MPs debating the report in the House of Commons, 20 November 1986.