Agent Running in the Field

by John le Carré

one of those upper-class girls who’ve grown up with ponies and you never quite know what’s going on inside.

It is my considered opinion that for Britain and Europe, and for liberal democracy across the entire world as a whole, Britain’s departure from the European Union in the time of Donald Trump, and Britain’s consequent unqualified dependence on the United States in an era when the US is heading straight down the road to institutional racism and neo-fascism, is an unmitigated clusterfuck bar none.

For unbelievers, badminton is a namby-pamby version of squash for overweight men afraid of heart attacks. For true believers there is no other sport.

Sometimes in life you get caught for sins you haven’t committed.