Adam von Trott

The extraordinary courage of Germany’s wartime ‘traitors’

13 December 2025 9:00 am

With Nazi informers everywhere, any dissident risked betrayal – and the prospect of being hanged ‘like slaughtered cattle’ for ‘defeatism’

Nimoy and Shatner in ‘The Man Trap’, the first episode of Star Trek (September 1966)

Mr Spock and I

5 March 2016 9:00 am

For a show with a self-proclaimed ‘five-year mission’, Star Trek hasn’t done badly. Gene Roddenberry’s ‘Wagon train to the stars’…

Always prone to depression: David Astor c.1946

A good editor and a good man

5 March 2016 9:00 am

Before embarking on this book, Jeremy Lewis was told by his friend Diana Athill that his subject, the newspaper editor…