Espionage
Their Man In London
What do we really want from our security services?
Washington Blame Game
Was the journalist Judith Miller’s bad intelligence to blame for the 2003 invasion of Iraq?
Wired But Not Secured
The uses and abuses of technology
Donnish Spy Games
A valuable – though not objective – historical record
Overrated: Edward Snowden
Anyone who has seen The Bourne Identity, or the many similar Hollywood films, finds the Edward Snowden saga familiar. A heroic fugitive insider is hunted by a rogue government agency. As the credits roll, our man on the run is vindicated, thanks to a combination of media coverage and belated congressional scrutiny. He gets the girl. The villains go to jail.
Snoop Log
Listening in on a conversation about listening in
Data Oversharing
‘Whenever I buy something over the phone I am giving a total stranger the means to clean out my current account’
Blunt Contempt
Many a British art worthy maintains we all could have been Anthony Blunt. Rubbish: he deserved nothing less than exile in Russia
What Daddy Did in the War
Papa Spy by Jimmy Burns
Swallowing the Party Line
The Last Englishman: The Double Life of Arthur Ransome by Roland Chambers
Only Congress can tame Beijing’s bloody instincts
Hong Kong’s struggle for freedom is inspirational. But outsiders must help by challenging police violence
Doomed by data, our new Trojan Horse
“Data, like the jungle, is neutral. But its users are not.”
The riddle of the car bomb and the lucky gambler
Investigating the assassination of a Maltese journalist has been a masterclass in legal ping-pong