Letters
Espionage Secrets
SIR: Harry Gelber’s reflections (May 2010) on the constraints under which Christopher Andrew and his publisher operated in writing the authorised history of MI5, as well as his reflections on the possibility that the British government ran “double cross” intelligence operations against the USSR during the Second World War, are an interesting line of speculation. They prompt three questions, however. (1) Why would a serious historian agree to write an authorised history that, sixty-five years after the end of the Second World War, omitted such significant facts? (2) Can such speculation do anything to deflect the thoroughly documented fact of massive Soviet hostile penetration of Britain at that time? (3) If Christopher Andrew had any reason to believe that he was being denied access to crucial materials regarding Roger Hollis (or some other Soviet mole in MI5), why would he not have protested at this, as one would expect from an historian of stature and…
Madam: Archbishop Fisher (July-August 2024) does not resist the attacks on his church by the political, social or scientific atheists and those who insist on not being told what to do.
Aug 29 2024
6 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
Aug 20 2024
23 mins
A friend and longtime supporter of Quadrant, Clive James sent us a poem in 2010, which we published in our December issue. Like the Taronga Park Aquarium he recalls in its 'mocked-up sandstone cave' it's not to be forgotten
Aug 16 2024
2 mins