‘End of rules-based order’: Irishman who helped end a civil conflict on a world tilting toward war
As a UN mediator, Seán Deely helped to end a civil conflict. Now, he warns the world is tilting towards war
John le Carré
‘It’s the story that nobody will ever believe’: How le Carré’s The Night Manager returned to TV
The first season of the BBC’s John le Carré spy story aired a decade ago. The sequel has arrived via an unusual route
The Night Manager on BBC One review: Dark TV for dark times - with compelling results
Television: Suave sleuth Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) emanates movie star glamour, but the world he inhabits is notably murkier than before
TV guide: the best new shows to watch in the next week
December 28th-January 2nd highlights: including The Night Manager, Duffy’s Pub, and Stranger Things finale
Books in brief – Jungle Days: Supporting Celtic in the 1980s; Dark Cloud Over Muckish; Tradecraft: Writers on John le Carré
New books from John Wight and Paul O’Donaghue, plus a collection of essays on the political espionage novelist edited by Federico Varese
Slow Horses, the very British hit about misfit spies, is back and its budget is showing
The BBC passed on the show, according to Apple TV’s Europe boss. It was a mistake worthy of Slough House
Slow Horses returns: ‘Readers know by now I’m capable of killing off whoever is in danger,’ says creator Mick Herron
Mick Herron knows every character he jettisons spells the end for an actor too. That’s life, he says, as the Apple TV+ series returns and a new Slough House novel arrives
New crime fiction: cynical pitch-black comedy reinvigorates the spy fiction genre
New novels by Mick Herron, Nicola Upson, Seishi Yokomizo, Janice Hallett and Rav Grewal-Kök
George Stephanopoulos: ‘You can only have constructive debates if people are determined to engage in good faith’
Clinton-era White House adviser talks about his history of the White House Situation Room and his fear that Americans of opposing political camps have stopped listening to each other
Errol Morris on his film-making ideal: ‘I call it the shut-the-f**k-up school of just sitting and listening’
All the Oscar winner’s talents are on show in The Pigeon Tunnel, his gripping documentary about the great espionage writer John le Carré
The Pigeon Tunnel: Seasoned interrogators John le Carré and Errol Morris lock horns, with fascinating results
‘I’ve lived through a world of endless betrayal,’ the great spy writer tells the celebrated documentarian in his final testament on camera
A secret gay history of UK espionage: ‘The skill-set of homosexuals and spies overlapped’
Huw Lemmey, a novelist and host of the Bad Gays podcast, has made the intriguing spy film Ungentle
How to make the new Irish passport the world’s coolest: Vote for the jellyfish, the shark and the lizard
Donald Clarke: We are a sentimental people, but that does not extend to passports any more than it does to driving licences
Ben Macintyre: ‘The Brits have been on the wrong side of history many times in the past’
The historian on his new book on Colditz, and Britain’s second World War obsession
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