Klaus Fuchs: a spy for the atomic age
How “the most dangerous spy in history” made his name.
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Rachel Cusk and the dangers of honesty
Cusk’s expertly fluid collection of essays, Coventry, is about many things at once, but at its crux is the notion…
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The provocations of Enoch Powell
Fifty years after it shunned him, the Conservative Party has embraced Powell’s Eurosceptic and nationalist views.
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The F-word problem: why the left should be wary of labelling the far right “fascist”
Reporting from the rally of Tommy Robinson’s supporters protesting his sentencing for contempt of court at the Old Bailey in…
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Jack Straw’s The English Job is timely, revealing account of his time in Iran
The former foreign secretary seeks to explain Iran’s deep suspicion of Britain.
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From Facebook to Vote Leave: how we entered into a war against reality
How information is weaponised in our divided age.
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Fear, shame, guilt, suicide: ordinary Germans at the end of the Second World War
The German people were seduced by Hitler’s message of glorious blood sacrifice – right up until it needed to be…
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Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming: dense world-building that glitters with comic detail
“Well and so here we are again, back with fear, because gigantic tomes should be written about that, a new…
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