Clovis Meath Baker
Levelling the playing field
Questioning the status of history’s ‘most dangerous’ spy
Spy who stayed out in the cold
There are shades of Philby in Richard Sorge, the hard-drinking, motorcycling, womanising rake whose cover as an arrogant Nazi convinced the German official community in Tokyo that he was one of them
Goodbye to all that
A charming and engaging memoir of a world long gone
Our Man On Twitter
Is Tom Fletcher’s Naked Diplomacy the new model for British statecraft?
Their Man In London
What do we really want from our security services?
Donnish Spy Games
A valuable – though not objective – historical record
Another Country
James Naughtie’s spy thriller, The Madness of July, is the work of a man steeped in the politics of the BBC
Carrying water for freedom
Hong Kong’s protestors are brave and, so far, successful. The Chinese Communist Party leadership must be kicking itself
Discussions with a stone wall
Britain’s main gay rights organisation is risking its own future by adopting gender self-ID as its new cause
In the heartlands of white-flag academia
When I tried to find out why my pro-Brexit article was turned down I was rebuffed — showing the intellectual conformism of universities