Spying
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Prince
Is he simply a desperate chancer, or a genuine threat to British interests?
British spies and the IRA
Blair, Clinton, Ahern et al were credited with putting together the Northern Ireland peace deal, but 800 British agents also played their part
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
Spilling the beans on the great spymasters
Fantasy is an essential part of what we are pleased to call reality
Is the age of the Secret Service over?
Intelligence was more important than the individuals who risked their lives providing it
Espionage and the presumption of innocence
Even alleged Chinese spies are innocent till proven guilty
A lie amid history
Will your interpretation of history be more interesting than the real thing?
Passed-by spies
Spy show depicts the insecurity service
A spy for all seasons
Who is the man behind “The IPCRESS File”?
A spy all along
Morton Sobell went on trial for espionage with the Rosenbergs. His devotion to communism fascinated me
Less than the sum of its parts
Eugene Onegin, Royal Opera
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
The Bezos behemoth
Behind the logistics miracle are some troubling stories
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
We can’t even give them away
Let’s not pretend we have sovereignty over the Chagos Islands
The art of violence
High jinks in the Groucho Club are small beer when compared to the misdeeds of their artist ancestors
A Chancellor should be a fine thing
The University of Oxford’s Chancellor election has descended into farce
The case for Badenoch
She has a chance to capitalise on Starmer’s weakness
Eighteen questions for Kim Leadbeater
Questions that all MPs should be asking
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Who Should Be The Next Archbishop of Canterbury?
With the shock resignation of Justin Welby, who will the Great British Public select to lead the Church of England?
