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2006-10-31T00:00:00

Source: Dennis Gilbert/VIEW

Prince Charles famously likened the British Library to an academy for secret police, a sneer that is as unfair as it is inaccurate. You have to go down to the Thames at Vauxhall to see what a secret police HQ really looks like.

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