Sometimes one’s thoughts are so dry and barren that one has ceased to notice the fact. Then, like a brightly colored cactus fruit, an immensely silly thought appears. Look! There it is! At your feet! A capering clown of a question, viz., What’s the deal with fish sticks anyway? And your trek through the desert [...]
July 2013
John Quine, writes The Independent, was head of counter-intelligence at the British Secret Intelligence Service MI6 in the 1960s, and one of the team that extracted a confession of treachery from the double agent George Blake. Blake, a member of MI6, was, of all the spies uncovered in the Cold War, the one who did [...]
