
Heroes and villains
Damien Lewis | Rachel Reeves | The BBC
Damian Lewis illustrates an annoying tendency among posh people to disparage their own class, says Gareth Roberts in The Spectator. Lewis, star of the ITV drama A Spy Among Friends about the Philby-era security services, has praised scriptwriter Alex Cary – “that’s Lucius Alexander Plantagenet Cary, hereditary viscount of Falkland, by the way” – for inventing a female, working-class character to see through what Lewis calls the “white, upper-class dinosaurs” of MI6.