CHRISTOPHER BRADY is Lecturer in Decision Making Theory at City University Business School, London. Previously: Senior Lecturer at the Joint Services Command and Staff College, Bracknell; Officer in the Royal Navy (16 years) with experience of Intelligence Duties; two years as Research Fellow at Institute of Contemporary History researching decision-making in Cabinet Government. He is the joint author, with Dr Peter Catterall, of two forthcoming Macmillan publications; Government by Committee: the Development of Cabinet Committees in Britain and Routine and Crisis: Policymaking in the British Cabinet Committee System.