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A Damon/Affleck action movie, a Vince Vaughn comedy that actually looks good and the fourth series of of an awesome crime thriller.

Release of intelligence year after death ‘casts doubt’ on security service’s previous claims about British spy in IRA accused of murders

His spy series became the TV hit Slow Horses, and now his earlier novels are being adapted for screen, starring Emma Thompson. Mick Herron talks about finding recognition

As a childhood reader of spy novels, I acquired high expectations of the secret world. British spies would be flamboyant and exceptional Bond-types. But looking around the post-university scene, I realise that all the people I knew who became spies are dull. There was the humdrum civil service fast streamer…