The death of George Blake reveals how little we now respect Western values
The death of George Blake reveals how little we now respect Western values If we had a robustly self-confident country, we would not find moral equivalence in the betrayals carried out by this evil traitor 28 December 2020 • 9:30pm If Blake had worked for Stalin’s totalitarian twin Adolf Hitler, his activities would rightly have been greeted with a barrage of contumely on his death A profoundly evil man died on Boxing Day, though one would hardly have known it from the entirely judgement-free tone of his obituaries. George Blake started spying for Joseph Stalin’s Soviet Union in 1953, a...