While wearing breeches?
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As long as they’re brushed.
#Broochit
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It’s turning into a right old brouhaha!
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As ever so often these days, the most succinct commentary comes from the DM:
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Also relevant:
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You can be an elected British politician while having no fucking clue about how the British government works
Brexit Party MEP: Courts in ‘dangerous territory’
Brexit Party MEP Belinda de Lucy says she has the utmost respect for the UK courts but she believes it is “dangerous territory” when the judiciary “step into the sphere of politics”.
“We believe the sovereignty lies with the people,“ she said.
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Well, right now Boris is meeting with his paymasters, and not likely to get back for the opening of Parliament. I wonder how the special relationship is going…
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Boris was brash.
You can be an elected British politician while having no fucking clue about how anything or anyone works
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The most meta-absurd thing about this all is how much like a spy thriller it all is, and people don’t see it. Hollywood and writers like le Carre have been laying this out for years and years, yet when it happens right in front of people, they’re slow to react.
Boris von Pecker Johnson is reporting into the shady big people behind dark windows. They’ve laid out their agenda (like Jacob Rees-Mogg’s father’s ridiculous books), and they are sociopaths, so empathy isn’t going to stop them.
What a filthy mess. Time for the pickets and bonfires.
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Are the Slough House novels worth reading?
London, England: Slough House is where the washed-up MI5 spies go to while away what’s left of their failed careers. The “slow horses,” as they’re called, have all disgraced themselves in some way to get relegated here. Maybe they messed up an op badly and can’t be trusted anymore. Maybe they got in the way of an ambitious colleague and had the rug yanked out from under them. Maybe they just got too dependent on the bottle—not unusual in this line of work. One thing they all have in common, though, is they all want to be back in the action. And most of them would do anything to get there─even if it means having to collaborate with one another.
River Cartwright, one such “slow horse,” is bitter about his failure and about his tedious assignment transcribing cell phone conversations. When a young man is abducted and his kidnappers threaten to broadcast his beheading live on the Internet, River sees an opportunity to redeem himself. But is the victim who he first appears to be? And what’s the kidnappers’ connection with a disgraced journalist? As the clock ticks on the execution, River finds that everyone has his own agenda.
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Oh definitely.
The series is well worth a read – George Smiley it ain’t though.
The latest contains a not-very-veiled Boris character together with Royal figures getting up to hi-jinx of an Epstein variety.
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One of the le Carre books deals with soviet infiltration into the Labour party in the 1970s. It reads like a soviet de-briefing! This Brexit shit, this Trump rubbish, it’s all been a long time coming.
And of course, there’s more where it all came from!
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which would that be? " The Spy Who Came in from the Cold"?
oh, he has a new book out, and brexit plays a rôle.
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It’s so funny - he just reaches into the media ether to pull the story: low workload!
Unequivocally, yes. They’re slyly funny and as pointed out above, Herron fucking hates Johnson.
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When I wrote that the Slough House series wasn’t George Smiley I meant that it is about a group of less-than-able MI5 operatives and their isolation from the slickly run (and full of political infighting) main offices. They are in places quite funny and less cerebral than Le Carré, whose work I also enjoy, (and Price, Ambler, Deighton etc.) they are also more contemporary (even prescient).
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