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British political and sex scandal of the 1970s

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  • escàndol polític (ca)
  • British political and sex scandal of the 1970s (en)
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  • All three [principal prosecution witnesses] had ... been destroyed in cross-examination, and the prosecution's case at its close was shot through with lies, inaccuracies and admissions to such an extent that the defence decided not to give evidence. To have done so would have prolonged the trial unnecessarily. (en)
  • Auberon Waugh on Thorpe's election victory, February 1974 (en)
  • The "Bunnies" letter, February 1962 (en)
  • Thorpe on the trial (en)
  • "Since my letters normally go to the House, yours arrived all by itself at my breakfast table at the Reform, and gave me tremendous pleasure. I cannot tell you just how happy I am to feel that you are really settling down ... you can always feel that whatever happens Jimmy and Mary are right behind you ... no more bloody clinics ... In haste. Bunnies can go to France. I miss you" (en)
  • The most disappointing result has been Jeremy Thorpe's success in North Devon. Thorpe was already conceited enough, and now threatens to become one of the great embarrassments of politics. Soon I may have to reveal some of the things in my file on this revolting man. (en)
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  • Extracts from a letter from Thorpe to Josiffe, February 1962. (en)
  • Jeremy Thorpe, In My Own Time (en)
  • Private Eye, March 1974. (en)
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  • Thorpe affair (en)
  • Affaire Thorpe (fr)
  • ソープ事件 (ja)
  • Thorpeaffären (sv)
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