We are losing at what are supposedly Britain’s oldest strengths: spycraft and media.
Talk to a police officer, and they’ll tell you most murders are nothing like those on TV. There’s no series of dramatic twists, the early acquitted suspect, the reveal just in time for the ad break – instead it’s the street knife fight that wasn’t meant to get so deadly, or the grim end of a long story of domestic abuse.
International relations generally works in much the same way: despite decades of paranoid conspiracy theories, the predictable answer tends to be the right one. And when …read more
Source: New Statesman
