John le Carré, one of Britain’s greatest living writers, has spoken of the “toxic” parallels between the rise of Donald Trump and the rise of 1930s fascism. “Something truly, seriously bad is happening and from my point of view we have to be awake to that,” he told an audience at the Royal Festival Hall in London. “I think of all things that were happening across Europe in the 1930s, in Spain, in Japan, obviously in Germany. There’s an encouragement about.”Even today, Le Carré said, Ang Sang Suu Kyi is speaking of “fake news” in Burma. Facebook Twitter Pinterest A Legacy of Spies features the return of le Carré’s fictional spymaster George Smiley.

Source: The Guardian September 07, 2017 22:28 UTC