“During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.”
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I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.
The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.
History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.
I worked for MI6 in the Sixties, during the great witch-hunts, when the shared paranoia of the Cold War gripped the services.