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Clive Ponting Biography

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Clive Ponting is a British writer, political activist, and former government official known for revealing secret government documents on climate change and nuclear energy issues.

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Book:Secrecy in Britain

Source: Secrecy in Britain

“All Cabinet Ministers and other senior ministers are still sworn in as Privy Counsellors for life. The oath (which dates back to the thirteenth-century and has been described as Britain's oldest secrecy provision) commits them to keep all advice to the monarch secret.”

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Author:Clive Ponting

“...this initiation ceremony, known as 'signing the Official Secrets Act', has no legal force; everyone is bound by the Act whether they sign the form or not.”

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Author:Clive Ponting

“Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.”

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Book:Secrecy in Britain

Source: Secrecy in Britain

“...a Conservative backbencher called Margaret Thatcher managed, despite front bench opposition, to get enacted her Public Bodies (Admission to Meetings) Act 1960, which was aimed at opening up council meetings to both press and public.”

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Author:Clive Ponting

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Born: April 13, 1946
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