Analysis

There is something deeply concerning about the idea of an academic and environmental campaigner facing defamation proceedings from a billion-pound company over comments made while discussing his environmental campaign on a university podcast. Yet, that is the position that Professor Geraint Ellis of

Treason pays it would appear – for publishers at any rate. This year has seen a slew of new books on the the young idealists who spied for the Soviet Union. Stalin’s Apostles by Antonia Senior, currently Radio 4’s book of the week, fairly rattles along providing a valuable new ove

Roy Cohn turned aggression, deception and contempt for professional restraint into instruments of power. In American Scoundrel, Kai Bird and Susan Goldmark trace his path from the Rosenberg prosecution and McCarthy hearings to a lucrative legal career marked by intimidation, ethical misconduct and