24 March 2014
Ben Macintyre, author of Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal and Cambridge University alumnus, couldn’t resist a prod at his old sparring partners as he addressed a packed Christ Church Hall, Oxford, on Saturday at their Literary Festival.
“The Cambridge spy ring used to meet in the comfortable clubs of London, in common rooms and in rooms not unlike this,” he said. “There was also an Oxford spy ring, I should add. The reason you haven’t heard of any of them is because they weren’t any good.”