Richard R LeeThe Tales of which entire seasons of #SlowHorses are made. #MI5 and their extraordinary Lies and pathological Liars. #MalcolmTurnbull condemns UK’s ‘extraordinary’ hypocrisy over #Spycatcher affair https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/29/malcolm-turnbull-condemns-uks-extraordinary-hypocrisy-over-spycatcher-affair?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
In Search of a Better World
leon rosselson - ballad of a spycatcher
Matthew RimmerThatcher ‘utterly shattered’ by MI5 revelations in Spycatcher, files reveal https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/dec/29/thatcher-utterly-shattered-by-mi5-revelations-in-spycatcher-files-reveal #spycatcher #auslaw #confidentialinformation #uklaw
Robert FairheadI was living in England when post #134 of my #bookcovers and #firstsentences homage on #Instagram, #Spycatcher by #PeterWright, was published in 1987. And I recall the Thatcher government's ban on its sale in the UK and strident their attempts to do likewise in Australia, with Wright's publishers defended by a brash young #MalcolmTurnbull.
Turnbull won the case in Australia, and the Law Lords overturned the UK ban in 1988. Sometime after that, I bought my secondhand copy of Spycatcher for £1.50. And although I'm no expert on the spy business, after reading it, I couldn't understand the fuss over the book, other than further embarrassing the UK spy agencies over George Blake and the Cambridge Five!
As for Wright's opening sentences, I could imagine James Bond's Daniel Craig speaking them:
For years I had wondered what the last day would be like. In January 1976 after two decades in the top echelons of the British Security Service, MI5, it was time to rejoin the real world.
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Jyoti MishraThat is some a-grade bullshit and didn't someone called Orwell write something about thought crime??
The way that Corbyn was ousted by the Blairites in Labour was so efficient that it feels very MI5/CIA to me in a Spycatcher-kind of way.
https://labourbriefing.org/blog/2021/5/18/how-the-ehrc-got-it-so-wrong
Beefeater FellaGerman prosecutors say an employee of Germany’s foreign intelligence service has been arrested on suspicion of treason for allegedly passing information to Russia https://abcn.ws/3POjR3M
#Ukraine #Germany #Russia #SpyCatcher #BreakingNews
#Ukraine #Germany #Russia #SpyCatcher #BreakingNews
ospalhLanguage, Peter!
“Portraits of the three previous Director-Generals stared austerely across the room”
The author is an upper middle class guy. He should know that the “proper” plural is Directors General.
Huh. “#Spycatcher” starts rather oddly.
The author has to go to London from Great Baddow, and he does that by car. In 1949.
Why not take a taxi or bus to the Chelmsford station, or maybe walk there, and take a train? It’s on the Eastern Main Line.
#OspalhReads
The author has to go to London from Great Baddow, and he does that by car. In 1949.
Why not take a taxi or bus to the Chelmsford station, or maybe walk there, and take a train? It’s on the Eastern Main Line.
#OspalhReads
“No book this¹ century has attracted more attention than #Spycatcher.”
Mein Kampf, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung, all just peanuts compared to the memoirs of some British #spook 🕵🏻.
Or it’s a misprint. s/century/month/'
doctorow@[email protected] Huge mistake by #US govt in filing civil lawsuit against @[email protected] over publication of memoir. @[email protected]
#UK ban of #Spycatcher 50 years ago created huge deman.
👉🏻 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/17/edward-snowden-memoir-us-government-lawsuit?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other #PermanentRecord
https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/1174043223200796675