Readers write in about Agent 407 Olivia Forsyth, and pension systems.
News desks are controlled by male patriarchy, sending the productive engagement female writers want to inspire, into a closet to die.
The greatest irony is that focusing on Forsyth’s sex life did not highlight the terrible things she did as an apartheid-era spy.
The way the M&G handled a review of apartheid spy Olivia Forsyth’s book has triggered angry questions about patriarchal attitudes in the newsroom.
Anybody who has actually read the book will certainly know there is no attempt by me, or the publishers, to sell it as a sexed-up Jane Bond spy drama.
An ex-police agent who masqueraded as a student activist has dished the dirt, but it isn’t very dirty.
