Sir Peregrine had been struck by the thought that it might be a good idea to revise the mediaeval concept of outlawry, whereby known IRA members could be shot at will by the police and armed services... In Worsthorne's prescription, Mrs Thatcher would be awarding herself the much coveted 00 licence to kill, or at any rate to organise murder gangs on the South American model.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Sir Peregrine had been struck by the thought that it might be a good idea to revise the mediaeval concept of outlawry, whereby known IRA members could be shot at will by the police and armed services... In Worsthorne's prescription, Mrs Thatcher would be awarding herself the much coveted 00 licence to kill, or at any rate to organise murder gangs on the South American model." in the context of "Auberon Waugh, "On how that non-existent Gibraltar bomb may yet find its mark", The Spectator (14 May 1988), p. 8
• This article is about Operation Flavius, a military operation in which three members of the IRA were shot dead by the British Special Air Service (SAS) in Gibraltar on 6 March 1988" to mean that wisdom is timeless.