Thereâs no redecorating Boris Johnsonâs record in office
Readers respond to the prime ministerâs extravagant flat refurbishment and the ongoing question of how it was funded
âI donât really care very much about who paid for Boris Johnsonâs flat and who said what to who. I care a lot more about the tens of thousands of people who have died because of this manâs ignorance, arrogance and greed,â says one reader. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA
âI donât really care very much about who paid for Boris Johnsonâs flat and who said what to who. I care a lot more about the tens of thousands of people who have died because of this manâs ignorance, arrogance and greed,â says one reader. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA
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âYou could be the perfect spy. All you need is a cause,â the Canadian Security Intelligence Service included in the ad. Photograph: Eva Hambach/AFP/Getty Images
For an intelligence agency seeking new recruits, the promises of adventure and intrigue found within the pages of famous spy novels might seem like a useful recruiting tool.
But promoting a double agent who lies to his family, betrays his country and ultimately takes his own life, is possibly not a strategy that will produce the best candidates.
Canadaâs spy agency did just that when it posted a seemingly innocent tweet drawing attention to new job postings.
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18 Déc 2020 17h00
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John le Carré, the spy novelist, breathed his last on Saturday night, December 12th, in Cornwall, England. He had settled in a secluded home which he procured with his second wife. It goes to his credit that he created spy novels which were more realistic and intelligent than those that previously characterised the genre and flooded the market. In the process, he showed that they could be regarded as serious literature.
His father didn t admit until he [le Carré] was an adult that he d served a jail term, and his mother left late at night without saying goodbye, said Sisman. As a boy, le Carré told school friends his father had been a spy.
Sisman explained: He was of a generation, during the war, that what your dad did was terribly crucial. Ronnie was that most despised person, a war profiteer, rather than away at the front fighting in the army. He was sent to Sherborne, the Dorset public school, but ran away when he was 17. And here the truth and the fiction of his life start to collide - he claimed he d been recruited by MI5 to spy on student groups in Bern, Switzerland.