The moral of the story is: don’t mess with the British state. I woke up this morning to a message from my old Observer colleague Antony Barnett, who now works for Channel 4’s Dispatches, urging me to look at page 31 of the Daily Mail. There in all her glory was a transvestite called Delores Kane, who bore a distinct resemblance to the former MI5 officer David Shayler.
It’s not so long ago that David announced he was the messiah and now he has decided Jesus was a transvestite and that he, Shayler, must take the form of Delores.
I was one of many journalists who worked with David when he left the Security Service in the late 1990s. I first met him when he was living in exile in France and we worked on several stroies together. I ended becoming friends with him and his then girlfriend Annie Machon.
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