John Nott News Today

A guide to researching the Falklands war using records from the Guardian and Observer’s archive

A new documentary series focuses on one of the most effective double agents in the history of British intelligence

If there is one eternal rule of spycraft, Professor Sir David Omand says, “it’s that you’ve got to really understand your adversary.” The dangerous alternative is to guess. “The worst thing is to project your way of thinking onto them, imagining that somebody from a very different background, in very different circumstances, is going to think the same way as you.”

Owen Jones is a well-known flouncer, as too are Harry and Meghan. But is the flounce on its self-important way out?

The capture of a notorious Argentine officer during the Falklands war sparked a behind-the-scenes diplomatic spat between London and Paris, Foreign Office papers reveal.

Sir Simon Day, who has died aged 88, was a highly influential figure in the West of England as, among many other things, Conservative leader of Devon County Council; he also headed the West Country Television consortium which in 1980 bid to replace Westward TV, which had been crippled by boardroom infighting.

The flagship BBC2 current affairs programme - which launched in January 1980 - will also drop its team of dedicated reporters and stop doing its own investigative films.

A Westminster diarist’s decade of walks in the West Country

Sasha Swire shocked the political world with her first book. Her second will only shock those who expect self-awareness or concision

Coverage of the kiss-and-tell book Who Am I? by Danny Cipriani reminds me of that famous George Best story write Jennifer Selway.