I've Done My Share Of Period Stuff.

I Even Feel Grateful For The Failures.

What Le Carré Is So Good At Is Unpicking Something Very Specific About Englishness. That Is Almost Part Of Why I Think He Wrote The Novel. You Can Feel Le Carré's Anger That Someone Who Has Had The Benefits Of An English Education And An English Upbringing Is Using That Privilege To Basically Do The Worst Things Imaginable. There Is An Anger In The Book About That.

I Fundamentally Believe That In The Moral Balance Of The Human Race, We Right Ourselves. If We Feel Like The Ship's Keel Is Off, We Find A Way To Steer Ourselves Through The Storm Repeatedly.

I Find That, When I'm Working, If I Start The Day With A Run - Outside, Not In A Gym, But Just Me Out There In The Elements, With Only My Own Legs To Propel Me Forward... It's Something To Do With Just Being In The World And Getting Out Of My Own Head.

Everywhere There Is Inequality, Everywhere There Is Division, And I Worry About It. I Think Everybody Does.