Secrets are like sex
Neal Ascherson, 2 April 2020
The State of Secrecy: Spies and the Media in Britain
by Richard Norton-Taylor.
I.B. Tauris, 352 pp., £20, March 2019,978 1 78831 218 9 Show More
by Richard Norton-Taylor.
I.B. Tauris, 352 pp., £20, March 2019,
“... of Peter Wright’s malevolent but fascinating account of his time in British intelligence. The judge even ‘waited for the British journalists to turn up late from their lunches of freshly caught fish washed down by the best Australian Chardonnay before starting the court’s afternoon session’.Sometimes sheer moral outrage drives Norton-Taylor’s ... ”