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“... The rubric at the start of this remarkable volume is encouraging: ‘Everything in this book is true. No names have been changed, there are ... no invented scenes or dialogue.’ On the next page, however, the British publishers confess they have had to resile and purge the text to make it fit for the country whose attitude to freedom of expression has recently been judged by Mr Justice Scott to have somewhat too many similarities to places east of the Iron Curtain ...”

“... question has made it an ideal market for word-merchants: politicians, pundits and journalists. Ben Whitaker’s new study, The Global Connection, is admirably clear-sighted. He has opted for the compendious, rather than the propagandist, approach. He briefly surveys the historical and social by-ways of drug-taking, describes the chemistry and effects ...”

“... about 105 years for all the desirable reforms to be implemented. Is it possible to change things? Ben Whitaker’s The Police in Society is possibly the most balanced and best-informed study there is of the British force. It is packed with facts and opinions, taken from all political angles, so that it gives an excellent summary of all the conflicting ...”

“... with his authorised version, published The Unknown Courier. So the tale has been told before, but Ben Macintyre has done a more thorough and readable job of it than his predecessors. His access to the classified documents and unpublished autobiography that Montagu, who died in 1985, left to his son Jeremy make this the most complete account to date. Operation ...”