Spying
The UK’s China policy has created a legal trap
Out of date legislation and an ambiguous China policy may have collapsed the Westminster spying case
A peerless witness
What will strike readers is the sheer continental range of Norman Lewis’ writing
French spy classic rebooted in English
It’s like being at a party with people you think you know — who then turn out to be someone else
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?
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
The NHS is no longer above question
People are finally, if grudgingly, waking up to its flaws
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
Why Brexit was right
Bad decisions have been made since we voted to leave but we were still right to leave
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
The case for compromise with Cuba
The strategic case for negotiating with Havana
Why does Labour hate our pubs?
The government has to stop taxing the hearts of our communities out of business
The book awards are a joke
The panel of non-literary judges shows just how frivolous the Nibbies are
Eine kleine Berlinermusik
Berlin! Berlin! Berlin! (Bis); Love Maps (TXYart)
Keir factor
The prime minister must feel as if he faces the Plagues of Egypt
Won over by a stately Italian saga
A fictional Italian president and a cinema spin-off