The papers are full of reviews of the year and there is no doubt that my favourite story of the year was the Anna Chapman spy story. I was reading somewhere ealier in the year that spies now have to have very detailed identities created and these have to include facebook accounts, long histories online, and so on. Yet the idea of a spy being exposed and everyone being able to view what looks like a perfectly normal facebook account, with all the normal tourist photos, etc, is all very odd. Of course it helps the story enormously that Anna Chapman was so gorgeous - with even the US Vice President commenting that it hadn't been his idea to deport her!
And afterwards, there is the really odd idea that an exposed spy could pose for a men's magazine in provocative underwear and playing to the spy image. I think this is all terribly postmodern and thoroughly enjoyable in the light of the rejection of meta-narratives that it symbolises
So this is what a modern spy looks like!
So this is what a modern spy looks like!
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