our final discussion, he asked whether I would find it useful if he recorded his views in a memorandum. Sadly, it never came. The dedication of this volume records a debt which is acknowledged but which can never be repaid.
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Footnotes
1
Theosophy was a mixture of mysticism, Christianity and the ‘wisdom of the East’, sense and nonsense.
2
Aldermen were indirectly elected council members — elected to serve a fixed term by the directly elected element in the council; a highly honoured position which has since been abolished.
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The Party’s staff college in Yorkshire, where everyone from ordinary Party members to Cabinet ministers attended courses and discussions on policy.
6
A.V. Dicey, Introduction to the Study of the Law of the Constitution (8th edition, 1915), pp. 465-6.
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Admittedly he went on, as I used to point out: ‘What is beginning to worry some of us is “Is it too good to be
