John Laughland is an author, journalist and university lecturer. His three books to date are: 'The Death of Politics: France under Mitterrand' (Michael Joseph, 1994); 'The Tainted Source: the Undemocratic Origins of the European Idea' (Little Brown, 1997); and 'Le tribunal pA(c)nal international: gardien du nouvel ordre mondial' (F.-X. de Guibert, Paris, 2003).