in the UK you’ll notice this obsession with proximity to success. Anyone with a bit of clout is somehow “their mate”, but when it comes to actually championing people, the energy gets very strange
A quick story about Anthony Head.
He was of my earliest interviews as an entertainment journalist. It was GILES… from BUFFY. I was nervous.
Towards the end of our conversation, I dried up and forgot my next question… (1/2)
Alex Younger, with whom used to play toy soldiers with as a boy growing up in the Borders half a century ago, was an intensely moral man, perhaps unusually for a successful intelligence officer. Privately he was forthright in his criticism of those, such as Netanyahu, who were happy to slaughter the innocents among their enemies. This line in his obituary rang very true to the man I knew: "He was acutely aware of the corrupting powers of espionage and of the compromises it requires, but decried the “pernicious myth that, somehow, intelligence services are moral equivalents; that the end justifies the means, whatever the cost”. MI6 was not the same as the services of authoritarian states. “If we undermine the values we defend, even in the name of defending them, then we have lost.”"
This is truly heartbreaking The bond between them is so deep and pure . After all the years of working side by side , trusting each other with their lives , the dog doesn't understand transfers or orders - he only knows loyalty and love . Seeing him refuse to let go and run after the car shows how real that connection is . Moments like this remind us that animals love with their whole hearts , without conditions or explanations . It's impossible not to cry watching such raw devotion
I once met a woman who survived the Holocaust because her mother threw her, as a baby, into a German soldier’s arms before boarding a train. His family raised her and told her the story.
@Sawyer_DAA I think it’s more respective of the fall of England, the austerity, decline in public services and national outlook. The films took place in a very different country after the first 2. Nothing was ever as good as the 2012 olympics