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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold,, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, The Constant Gardner, and many more. One of his stories, "Dare I Weep, Dare I Mourn," was published in >em>The Saturday Evening Post in 1967. John le Carré Articles
Stephen Buranyi: Big Pharma is fooling us Success with coronavirus vaccine doesn’t mean industry deserves your affection. (Shira Inbar | The New York Times) Big Pharma is fooling us By Stephen Buranyi | For The New York Times | Dec. 21, 2020, 1:00 p.m. It’s about as near as science gets to a miracle: A coronavirus vaccine has arrived — and the main reason is that mRNA vaccines, a previously untested technology, appears to work better than almost anyone had hoped. As recently as this summer, many analysts were pushing their predictions for a vaccine into the fall of 2021, in line wi...
(Photo illustration: Dado Ruvic/Reuters) If you feel like you haven’t been exposed to enough stupidity today and would like to remedy that, the “Big pharma is fooling us,” reads the New York Times headline. “Heroic work went into the development of the coronavirus vaccines. But that doesn’t mean this industry deserves your affection.” The essay is by Stephen Buranyi, and it contains some absolute gems: The turpitude of the pharmaceutical industry is so commonplace that it has become part of the cultural wallpaper. The screenwriters of the 1993 movie “The Fugitive” knew they ...
Mr. Buranyi is a science journalist in London and a visiting lecturer at the European Business School. Dec. 17, 2020 It’s about as near as science gets to a miracle: A coronavirus vaccine has arrived — and the main reason is that mRNA vaccines, a previously untested technology, appears to work better than almost anyone had hoped. As recently as this summer, many analysts were pushing their predictions for a vaccine into the fall of 2021, in line with the timeline of traditional treatments. If these new vaccines perform as well in the wild as they have in clinical trials, the world will re...
Follow RT on By Tom Secker, a British-based investigative journalist, author and podcaster. You can follow his work via his Spy Culture site and his podcast ClandesTime. The recently departed writer occupied a strange space in the spectrum of spy authors. He was simultaneously one of British intelligence’s most respected and beloved representatives while also seen as one of its foremost critics. The demise of one of the world’s most famous spy authors leaves us with many unresolved questions. Who was le Carré? Where did his loyalties lie? Should we read his books as thinly f...