• By: Homily Lumbago
• Published: April 1 2020

Environmental protesters want to inherit the earth, not destroy it, a corporate whistleblower claims in a new book.

James Newhouse’s memoir, The Story of My Life (and Other Stories), lifts the lid on 20 years of espionage for energy companies, culminating in his marriage to an anti-nuclear activist.

“Some of the people I penetrated were fanatics,” he told reporters at the book’s luncheon launch. “But however misguided they sounded, they did mean well.”

Mr Newhouse was eventually fired by the consortium of companies that employed him, after he refused to incite his wife to attack police.

“My job was to play the violent minority,” he said, “but I couldn’t find one.”