The cat sat on the mat is not a story. The cat sat on the other cat’s mat is a story.

I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.

As our Governments spin, lie and lose their credibility, the electorate simply shrugs and looks the other way.

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

It was a charming fantasy of romantics that the spies would stop spying, that political conflict would end and politicians would tell the truth. Unfortunately that has not been the case.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

Fools, most linguists. Damn all to say in one language, so they learn another and say damn all in that.