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SIR – In the 1960s, I worked for the industrial group of the UK Atomic Energy Authority. Its head, Sir Christopher Hinton, told staff that they would be subject to a pay freeze for five years. Many, myself included, left the authority, which thereafter was no longer at the forefront of developing atomic energy for industrial purposes.
The budget for the development programme, which concentrated on nuclear reactors for power generation, was slashed by the government of the day with no regard for the long-term implications that are now evident in our dependence on foreign resources (Leading Article, July 27).
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media captionJohn Stonehouse: The MP who faked his death
Ask anyone today who it was in the 1970s who left his clothes on a beach and wandered into the sea in search of a new life, and the answer would probably be Reginald Perrin, not John Stonehouse.
Yet the enduring comedy of Reggie s fictional crack-up, in the classic BBC sitcom, has a matching drama in the real story of the missing MP, a posse of Czechoslovak spies and the mysterious trail he left behind.
Stonehouse was a young star in Harold Wilson s first Labour government of 1964, apparently heading for high office.
The astonishing story of John Stonehouse, the spy MP who betrayed his country and faked his own death
It was the epic scandal of a brilliant but brittle man – no wonder a new book on the cabinet minister is already being adapted for TV
25 July 2021 • 5:00am Throughout it all, John Stonehouse inspired devotion from the beautiful and mobilised ardent defenders in the court of public opinion
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There are some characters so extraordinary, so defiant of those norms of behaviour that bind the rest of us, that they dazzle and destroy in equal measure. John Stonehouse – British cabinet minister and Czech spy, seducer and betrayer, humanitarian defender of far-off lives and thoughtless wrecker of those nearby – was one such. To read the new account of his rise and astonishing fall, written by his great-nephew Julian Hayes (a lawyer whose father was himself a key Stonehouse casualty), is to be reminded just how far the trail of destruction ran.
John Stonehouse, My Father by Julia Stonehouse; Stonehouse by Julian Hayes â review
John Stonehouse on his way from the House of Commons to Horseferry Road magistrates court, October 1975. Photograph: Ken Towner/Evening News/Shutterstock
John Stonehouse on his way from the House of Commons to Horseferry Road magistrates court, October 1975. Photograph: Ken Towner/Evening News/Shutterstock
Two relatives of John Stonehouse offer differing reasons for why, nearly 50 years ago, the Labour MP, philanderer and suspected spy faked his own death in the strangest political story of the 1970s
Sun 25 Jul 2021 02.00 EDT
John Stonehouse was a politician who had it all. He was tall, good looking, clever, fiercely ambitious and an energetic campaigner for his causes with a high capacity for turning on the charm. Being a former RAF pilot and the son of a Labour mayor of Southampton helped lubricate his ascent in the party. After serving as junior minister of aviation and minister of state
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