I don’t know that book, but Slow Horses is also very much a very fond satire, or maybe better reimagining.

Yeah, it seems like there are lots of examples in John Le Carré’s Tinker, Tailor novel, where Gerald the mole (no spoilers!) launches operations he simultaneously thwarts, often rather brutally. We hear about these secondhand from Smiley’s investigations & before we know the Gerald’s identity.

Gadzooks = God's hooks
Goodbye = God be with ye
Good morning = God's mourning
G'day mate = God's demon bait

Do you know the ceiling at the Opéra Garnier, Jo? One of my favourites

But if there’s a huge upset in the midterms, that will get reported and gradually his unpopularity will become clear. But I’m still not convinced it’ll be enough.

My sense is that the realisation he’s weak is only slowly dawning over here. The media doesn’t really report that very much. They report a lot of his actions, and I think people here assume Americans like what he’s doing because he’s largely doing exactly what he said he would & they voted for that.

with recently and she was praising Trump for having eliminated illegal
immigration but didn’t seem to have any sense of what that has actually meant on the ground. Hadn’t heard of ICE, nor the boat strikes, nor the El Salvador stuff.

I sort of hoped we might do better solely because people would have had a few years to see the awful effects in the US, but it’s just not clear to me that much of this information gets through unless you’ve got a lot of personal ties in the US, as academics often do. I spoke to someone I volunteer