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
China has a strategy and Britain doesn’t
A roadmap to better relations requires realism. Beijing’s interests and goals are openly stated—if you know where to look
The plague
Standpoint goes to press as the pandemic rages. So too does the search for blame and the political fall-out
Defeat begets defeat for Britain’s cloth-eared Left
The censorious culture of the liberal Left is hostile to freedom of expression. The fate of the trans-rights movement evinces this pointless politics