In case you don’t  have quite enough to read, check out my gentle gallop round some of the issues arising from spying down the ages, over at the latest issue of DIPLOMAT:

French spy, Francois Henri de la Motte’s vivid execution in 1781 attracted an  enthusiastic crowd of some 80,000… Nowadays we have the European Union’s Common Security and Defence Policy, so spies die of boredom instead.