Why wouldn’t China try to infiltrate the British security services – and those of other countries? I expect China has to a greater or lesser extent been successful in these enterprises. It’s nothing new.
If the Yalta conference features at all in our collective consciousness it is as the photograph of the Allied leaders taken by Robert Hopkins, son of Harry Hopkins.
“At about three in the morning of Thursday 3 May, a police constable was on routine night patrol in West London. His beat took him through the small triangle of South Kensington that lies like a wedge between Hyde Park and Knightsbridge.
“There is a surplus of books about modern Greece, but this one is the best for many years”, writes a reviewer in the New Statesman in the latter half of the last century.
It’s a few years since I read a classic detective story; one in this case written in the 1920s with all the tropes of the best inter-war detective fiction.