Julian Hayes

Julian Hayes is the author of ‘Stonehouse: Cabinet Minister, Fraudster, Spy’ about the Labour MP John Stonehouse who was a spy for the Czech state security agency.

Russian spies and the return of the Cold War

Last week’s arrest of a security guard employed at the British embassy in Berlin, on suspicion of spying for Russia, serves as a stark reminder that the UK and its allies are in the thick of a new Cold War. With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the subsequent collapse of communist