Reading a biography of Burgess, one of the Cambridge Five, and it struck me that a distinctive feature of the espionage world of the 1920s-50s or so is how literary it is. Lots of writers who became spies, and spies who became writers. That contributes to the air of fantasy about the whole affair
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And yes, a very exchangeable collection of spies and scribblers.
I can't think of one from the hard core landed aristocracy.
A wiki search elicited this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-right_politics_in_the_United_Kingdom
and this in the links:
Now that the only ideology is money, it's not as interesting.
Just finished The Master Spy. Knightley. If you haven’t read it…do.
Gotta have a good imagination when trying to find pieces or gaps in a moment of pattern recognition.
Or it used to be...
Not like the current crop, what what?
This lot? Not a bit cricket, old boy.
When the Chengdu Hugo mess blew up, I was immediately reminded of the Soviet propaganda campaigns.