The spooks will need to be back big time, too, and likely long since in training, getting into position... this time with Ukrainian know-how!
#TinkerTailor
#MI6

Espionage telly was obviously: #TheNightManager, #TinkerTailor, and now it appears #SmileysPeople is also on th’Iplayer. This is an unexpected and very welcome development. Will need headphones now, for the ashes. Realise how middle class and middle aged this makes us (actually middle class and old)

Enjoyed #StrangerThings, although it did nick the ending of Steve Coogan’s The Parole Officer somewhat. Now a bit of #TinkerTailor and simultaneous #TMS, just to get back to this side of the pond.

It is Friday! Not doing music tonight, because #TinkerTailor is on th’Iplayer: unmissable.

Talking of telly, the Beeb in its wisdom has put the original telly version of #TinkerTailor back on th’iPlayer, presumably because of the new Night Manager thingy. Hurrah! (For both).

Watching Tinker Tailor for the umpteenth time ...just because...#BBC4 #TinkerTailor

Imagine the Circus trying to deal with Copilot or chatgpt. I suspect a smart tv or barista coffee would outfox most of them #tinkertailor

For the first time I feel sorry for #Trump. Riding alone with #Putin in the beast was always a risky strategy, but whatever was said, it put Putin in control from that point forward. #TinkerTailor #Alaska

Every day last year I drew a portrait of someone on their birthday using my non dominant left hand to help maintain brain function and to see how much I improved.
#birthday #portrait #art #drawing #sketch #benedictcumberpatch #actor #sherlock #film #movies #tinkertailor #imitationgame #tv

Afternoon Blueskies 🦋

Today, I've been thinking about all the tailors.

So, it's time to shake it off, take the castle, and walk with purpose.

#Prada #TailorSwift #TinkerTailor

youtu.be/xzD4gm01TMk?...

The Little Drummer Girl - Series 1: Episode 1 Drama series. Charlie, a fiery and brilliant young actress, meets a mysterious stranger on the beach in Greece, and he draws her into an international espionage operation.

Hidden gem. #FlorencePugh is starring in #Thunderbolts at the moment but back in 2018 she was in The Little Drummer Girl. If you liked #TinkerTailor, this is for you.

Anybody else put on slow moving, dry, British Cold War espionage movies while doing huge batches of invoiced and estimate?
No? Just me?

#TinkerTailor #JohnLeCarre #coldwar

Just re-watched the film version of #TinkerTailor. Peoples of the universe - be more #GeorgeSmiley #leCarre.

😂😂😂😂
What if Bill Haydon had indeed become the Head of the Circus like Karla had planned? #TinkerTailor

Bill Haydon: Do you know what's killing Western Democracy, George? Greed . . . and constipation. . . moral, political, aesthetic. I hate America very deeply. The economic repression of the masses, institutionalised. Even Lenin couldn't foresee the extent of that. (1974)

#TinkerTailor #LeCarré

🎬 Thrilled to have welcomed #MarkStrong at @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social! Hosted by MA in Inteligence & International Security, we explored his iconic roles in #TinkerTailor #ZeroDarkThirty #Kingsman. For years, Strong’s 🕵️‍♂️ characters have shaped #spyfiction & public perception of the #intelworld.

You forgot to tell them you’re a Calvinistic penny-pinching Scot #TinkerTailor

Now that I've completed extensively rebuilding the Ancillary Writing Parlor (or AWP Room, for short*), it's time to get back to work on the book.

* Only #TinkerTailor fans will get this.

Who knew #TinkerTailor was back on iPlayer?

Finally caught up with all my work, in the cause of a guilt-free Friday. Now for a little light espionage and a glass of port... #TinkerTailor

And now #TinkerTailor is on telly; the fillum, not the telly. The telly one is one of the zeniths of human achievement, like Test Match Special, quantum mechanics or vaccines. The fillum is v good too, such a shame they didn’t do Smileys People. #RichardWatchesTheTelly

I'm not sure Benedict Cumberbatch is quite right as Gwillim - too mannered. #TinkerTailor

So easy to forget about the bit where Mark Strong kills a flaming CGI owl in his French class. #TinkerTailor

Gawd bless yer, Roger... #TinkerTailor

I actually quite like the 2011 #TinkerTailor... - it was never going to replicate the long-form TV drama and nor should it have tried.