Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

In the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery.

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

I had two experiences of criminality: one was my conman father, the other was teaching at Eton

...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.