The Tyrannicide Brief is really two books in one, though they are held together by the polemical purpose of their author, the human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson. The first is an account of the career of the Solicitor-General at the trial of King Charles I in 1649, John Cooke (or Cook). The second is about the virtue and necessity of bringing tyrants and war criminals to justice.

Oct 2005

God’s Own Countries

Mightier Than the Sword

A Polite People?

An Eie for Detail

Into the Howling Wilderness

Epiphany on Trumpington Street

Royal and Ancient

A Very British Coup

Of Margraves and Massacres

The Pen & the Sword

Singing in the Reign

Far From Glorious

Fear of Foreigners

A Society Of Stages

Authority Figure

Politician, Know Thyself

The Sage of Norwich

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