Books
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Agent Molière – The Life of John Cairncross, the Fifth Man of the Cambridge Spy Circle.
The Cambridge Spies continue to fascinate – but one of them, John Cairncross, has always been more of an enigma than the others. He worked alone and was driven by his hostility to Fascism rather than to the promotion of Communism. During his war-time work at Bletchley Park, he passed documents to the Soviets which
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The Slow Food Story: Politics and Pleasure
The Slow Food movement, set up in 1986 in Italy, has become one of the most significant and unusual social and political movements of modern times. It is often characterised as an association of gourmets but it has transformed itself into a serious global movement, with 84,000 members in over 120 countries and increasing links
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Not a Normal Country: Italy After Berlusconi
This is the story of how Silvio Berlusconi, Italy’s richest man and media entrepreneur, came to power and ruled Italy for five years. His ‘postmodern populism’ exploited the long-term crisis in Italian politics and created a culture of illegality that turned Italy into the most degenerate body politic in Europe. These dark years brought post
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Endgames and New Times: the Final Years of British Communism
This British Communist Party’s last years, a period of rapid change and reassessment until its ultimate dissolution in 1991, was also invigorated by new political currents. The book covers the period of the 1960s and 1970s when the party was influenced by new social and political movements, especially feminism and Eurocommunism, while the ideas of