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'It was total freedom' A love letter to the old King's Cross
Evening Standard via Yahoo Canada News· 2 weeks agoIf you are a Londoner of a certain age, chances are you will remember Bagley’s nightclub — stories...
Opinion: The man who fooled Hitler
CNN via Yahoo Canada News· 3 weeks agoCounterspies are the messiest but most potentially history-altering conduits of information, writes Tim Naftali, citing D-Day and the end of the Cold War...
Why Barbara Comyns is the best English novelist you’ve never heard of
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 4 months agoTHE READING LIST: In the strange, beguiling novels of mid-century writer Barbara Comyns, girls...
Tucker Carlson mocked over fawning praise for Russian shopping trolleys
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 5 months agoEx-Fox News host’s trip to praise increasingly authoritarian and militaristic country comes as...
Roy Roebuck, journalist, barrister and Labour MP who formed Harold Wilson’s ‘Young Eagles’ –...
The Telegraph via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoRoy Roebuck, who has died aged 94, was a Fleet Street sub-editor who was briefly a Labour MP – and...
From a real-life spy to Kim Philby’s granddaughter: who will be the next le Carré?
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 months agoSince the death of John le Carré in December 2020, we have seen the publication of his abandoned...
Lady Penn, loyal friend of Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret and lady-in-waiting to the Queen...
The Telegraph via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoLady Penn, who has died aged 97, was a close friend of the late Queen and Princess Margaret, and a...
Jury in trial of ex-RCMP official charged with leaking secrets hears final arguments
CBC via Yahoo Canada News· 8 months agoThe jury in the trial of a former RCMP intelligence official accused of leaking intelligence heard...
Review: 'The Pigeon Tunnel' is spy versus spy, as clever documentarian meets cagey novelist
LA Times via Yahoo News· 9 months agoThe slipperiness of truth is documentary filmmaker Errol Morris’ central subject, as it was for David Cornwell, who wrote our greatest spy novels under the pen name John le Carré. In Morris’ ...
‘The Pigeon Tunnel’ Review: Errol Morris Crafts a Skeptical Portrait of the Ex-Spy Who Called...
Variety via Yahoo Canada News· 9 months agoIn 2016, John le Carré published a memoir called “The Pigeon Tunnel,” which the late spy novelist —...