Howard Marks

Why were the security services so obsessed with the Marxist historian Christopher Hill?

22 February 2025 9:00 am

MI5 and Special Branch intercepted Hill’s mail for decades, but the former Master of Balliol was an impartial teacher and certainly no Soviet agent

Howard Marks: the dreary life of a drugs dealer

Celebrity lives

14 November 2015 9:00 am

I learned from this little lot that if one has read The Diary of a Nobody, then one can derive…

The devils’ advocate

27 June 2015 9:00 am

Jeremy Hutchinson was the doyen of the criminal bar in the 1960s and 1970s. No Old Bailey hack or parvenu…