Chic, that’s what he is—a barmaid’s dream of a real gentleman. - John le Carré

Those critics don’t read their own newspapers, and nor perhaps have they noticed that a former head of MI5, our security service, who was translated to the House of Lords, was recently denied the senior post on a security committee on account of her connections with oligarchs in the Ukraine... supposedly connected with criminal conspiracy.

She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life.

"It is not fashionable to quote Stalin but he said once, "half a million liquidated is a statistic, and one man killed in a traffic accident is a national tragedy.