My favourite part was the opening. In which the underlying assumption was that we all knew what he was talking about, having memorized the course of his star spangled career. Which we didn't. Then it… (View Post)

I hear Westminster Total Landscaping was free. (View Post)

Gosh. He's terrible at this. SKS may be no good at TV, but he only has to be better than that. (View Post)

The absolutely banality of the commentary on those feeds. John Craven used to be more incisive. (View Post)

I don't think it is necessarily that weird. Gordievsky must have made MI6 seem omnipotent in the 70s/early 80s, after the disasters of the 50s and 60s. The fact that US sources didn't know who he was… (View Post)