I spy Craig’s secret agent gong

IN A rare interview Sir David Omand, former head of the UK intelligence agency GCHQ, confessed an admiration for the James Bond films. ‘I hugely enjoy them but they have nothing whatever to do with the gathering of secret intelligence,’ he told Nick Ferrari on LBC radio.

‘The ideal intelligence officer, is the person, he or she, who walks into the room and you don’t even notice them. If Daniel Craig walks into a room heads will turn.’

Asked if it was right that Craig is in the Order of St Michael and St George — an honour usually only accorded spies and diplomats and which James Bond has in the Ian Fleming books — Omand replied: ‘Oh yes, it’s one of those little British quirks, it’s a little bit of eccentricity.