You know, we could be looking at the end of the world.
Charles Manson’s died, Robert Mubage is — or isn’t — standing down as Zimbabwean president, and Angela Merkal’s not been able to form a government.
Obviously, it’s not.
If you’re reading this, later on this evening, the world is quite assertively still around.
It’s not been blown up by Vogons, in other words.
The reason I mention this?
Is simply that it’s my way of telling you I’ve got the news on.
And that the bit that’s caught my eye?
Is this.
It seems that up until about 1947, MI6, the UK s espionage organisation, had a secret slush fund.
Funding all sorts of shenanigans.
Personally? I’m really not surprised.
Somehow, MI6 having black funds so secret that not even MI6’s finance section knew about?
Seems very in character.
And is a very good way of explaining Le Carré’s phrase, reptile fund.
You have to love a reptile fund, don’t you?
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