Horizon

Well, he did want a revolution didn't he?

...and he did fully expect as of mid-'39 that he would be detained as a troublemaker by his own government if war broke out. Really it was extremely open-minded of the BBC to hire him.

...they probably took him for a full-on destructive pinko- their ideal employee...

There's a great line in Sandbaggers where one of the SIS men makes a sniffy comment about an MI5 agent seconded to temporary intelligence work: "Well, it'll make a nice change from all those Communist Party barbecues." I have a feeling that that sums up a lot about the counter-intelligence services, or at least from 1945-1989 anyway.

ROBBIE, please note that you are now banned. Up till now only your more egregious attempts to change the subject have been removed, but until further notice any comments that you make will be deleted without being read. Ditto for emails and other forms of whingeing. Feel free to take your Solzhenitsyn act somewhere else in the meantime. The ban will be removed if and when you can demonstrate sufficient maturity.

What a wonderfully ironic link, given the current debates in Congress regarding renewal of the patriot act. Here's another irony . . .the terrorists in London were identified (I think) with the aid of the ubiquitous street cameras there, a good thing. And yet those cameras also represent a big-brother-like bad thing, the ever present eye on us all. Sets off my ambivalence again. The link was a good read. Thanks