When You're My Age And

Once You've Lived The Inside-out World Of Espionage, You Never Shed It. It's A Mentality, A Double Standard Of Existence.

On One Hand We Go Like Hell For Every Terror Cell We Can Find, We Penetrate It, We Destroy It. On The Other Hand, There Is A Much Bigger Need For A Political Solution.

For All The Flailing And Huffing And Puffing, There Is A Kind Of Fatality About The Process Of War-making And The Excuses We Find For It, The Consolation Of Belligerence In Politics.

I Had Two Experiences Of Criminality: One Was My Conman Father, The Other Was Teaching At Eton

America Has Entered One Of Its Periods Of Historic Madness, But This Is The Worst I Can Remember.