The Book Britain Tried to Ban
In November 1986, in a Sydney courtroom, the most powerful civil servant in Britain took the witness stand and spent days being taken apart by a thirty-two-year-old lawyer. Sir Robert Armstrong was the Cabinet Secretary, the head of the British Civil Service, and Margaret Thatcher’s government had shipped him halfway around the world to help stop a book. His cross-examiner, Malcolm Turnbull, was a young Australian lawyer acting for the book’s author and publisher, and would one day become Prime Minister of Australia himself.
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