My side of the story

Abstract

In the first week of December last year, The Spectator published an article naming Richard Gott, then Literary Editor of The Guardian, as an agent of the Soviets. Within hours of The Spec tator article appearing, Gott resigned from his post at The Guard ian. So far, Mr Gott has remained silent about his reactions to that disclosure. The BJR invited him to write his own account, and reaction, to what was, by any standards, a dramatic incident in British journalism. He accepted our invitation ...