Peter Donaldson, the voice of BBC Radio 4, reads John Morrison's razor-sharp satire on the rise and fall of Tony Blair, retold as an Edwardian boy's school story. Victory over his rival Brown proves short-lived after 'Sooty' Blair and the headmaster Dr Bush send the College Rifle Corps into the slum ...
New spies with new loyalties, old spies with old ones; terror as the new mantra; decent people wanting to do good, but caught in the moral maze; all the sound, rational reasons for doing the inhuman thing; the recognition that we cannot safely love, or pity, and remain good "patriots" -- this is the fabric of John le Carré's fiercely compelling and current novel A Most Wanted Man. A half-starved young Russian man in a...