tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post3991100531352559883..comments2024-02-06T16:17:25.826+00:00Comments on THE GRØNMARK BLOG: Great news! There's going to be a major TV drama series based on Henry Hemming's "M: Maxwell Knight, MI5’s Greatest Spymaster" Scott Gronmarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-70453274596262114682017-11-06T16:25:54.441+00:002017-11-06T16:25:54.441+00:00I agree - perhaps they'll simply portray Knigh...I agree - perhaps they'll simply portray Knight as a villain. The BBC's attitude to Soviet communism has been on display in recent days - I wonder if they'll be celebrating the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht in a similar fashion next November. Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-61761124770982702652017-11-02T14:54:15.054+00:002017-11-02T14:54:15.054+00:00I'm currently around halfway through Hemming&#...I'm currently around halfway through Hemming's book and greatly enjoying it.<br /><br />As for a television version, I wonder how the BBC will handle the desperate attempts of the Comintern to spy on and undermine Britain in the years leading up to WWII?<br /><br />Any reader with an ounce of sense, and who wasn't already aware of what went on, will recognise the seeds then being sown of so much of today's poisonous vegetation.<br /><br />The parent plant might have died, but the spawn lives on.GCoopernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-47676269517321778152017-11-01T14:35:45.813+00:002017-11-01T14:35:45.813+00:00Pavement artists and lamplighters – did "M&qu...Pavement artists and lamplighters – did "M" stand for Mayhew as in <i>Mayhew's London</i>?David Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12345636878071983416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-83724778228797012792017-11-01T14:21:34.231+00:002017-11-01T14:21:34.231+00:00I misspoke myself. And, anyway, I am living as a g...I misspoke myself. And, anyway, I am living as a gay man. <br /><br />Thanks very much, ex-KCS - you are, of course, quite right. Both terms are generally acceptable, I think - but not in the context of le Carré novels.Scott Gronmarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15118026157459333174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-26150340486802193572017-11-01T13:02:22.029+00:002017-11-01T13:02:22.029+00:00The Salisbury Review is a superb publication. Some...<br /> The Salisbury Review is a superb publication. Some of its readers are likely to know the difference between a Fascist and a Nazi. <br /><br />One of the SR's illustrious readers certainly did : " I am not a Fascist. Fascists are a bunch of shopkeepers. I am a Nazi." Alan Clark.Cock Inn Regularnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2215553202978284468.post-37615210686423474692017-11-01T10:36:12.629+00:002017-11-01T10:36:12.629+00:00I think the word Le Carré uses to describe the tec...I think the word Le Carré uses to describe the techniques used by officers of the circus and their agents is 'tradecraft' not 'spycraft'. Like you, I am looking forward to seeing the series.ex-KCSnoreply@blogger.com