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
The West slumbers as its enemies run amok
Profound weaknesses leave us open to political warfare from Russia and China—weaknesses which they are ruthlessly exploiting
Routed by liberalism
How usury killed Christendom
Offences and defences
‘Standpoint is, as it has always been, a magazine for small-c conservatives and small-l liberals. But it is also for small-s socialists and small-g greens, and for those who resist pigeonholing on principle’