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
How Top Boys topple down crime’s ladder
Too many prisoners rejoin society with no education, stable housing or job prospects. No surprise that more than half reoffend within a year
In the bleak midwinter
Christmas can be a bleak time of year. While some feel isolated, others are overwhelmed by the need for a perfect family Yuletide when their reality is different
My warnings to our spy watchdogs
Britain is under attack from Russia. And the government is blocking a Parliamentary report that details it