John le Carre and Richard Dearlove

Polly posted this in October 2019:

Within little more than a year David Cornwell had died:

Here's a very interesting interview DemocracyNow! did a few years before:

I hope Polly doesn't become a novelist. Stick to spying my love: Polly Boiko on German Claims RT Journalists Were Engaging in Espionage.

See also Hannah Arendt (1973): This Country [the US] Is Not A Nation State on attacking the bureaucracy and Today is The 88th Anniversary of The Burning of the Reichstag in Berlin in 1933, in particular the interview with Benjamin Hett on his book The Death of Democracy: