Tag: Lord Widgery
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The Judicial Fixer.
1. Brigadier Frank Kitson subverts the law. Brigadier Frank Kitson of the British Army was a so-called counterinsurgency guru. He was sent to Northern Ireland in 1970 to tackle the IRA. The following year, his astonishingly indiscreet book, ‘Low Intensity Operations’ appeared on the bookshelves. In it, he explained that there were two ways of administering…