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A good agent must have entertainment value, say the Sarratt bearleaders: that was something Moscow Centre also understood.
In our game there’s two views of history: conspiracy and fuck-up.
We’re not just English. We’re reasonable.’
‘What are you saying to him?’ ‘I am explaining the principles of democracy.’ ‘What are they?’ ‘No Communism and no generals,’ he replied and laughed.
The fact that I am wrong, he had once replied to Ann, in the midstream of one of their endless arguments, does not make you right.