Norman Taylor

And the best way to deal with blackmail is to not have blackmail in the first place.

Have something they can't blackmail you over.

Yeah, exactly.

And the worst thing you can do is sometimes, depending on what it is, is try and cover it up.

The best way is to own it.

Honesty is the best policy.

You know, you see people all the time and, you know, you get...

they call PR companies and PR companies will put a spin on something.

And then you see it drags on and drags on and drags on.

I could probably close that off in an afternoon by issuing an honest statement.

Because if you've genuinely made a mistake, providing it's not something horrific, you know, where people have been harmed in some way, then the public will generally respect honesty than somebody who tries to spin a yarn and then subsequently drag it out over a period of time.

The biggest lie comes from history.

You know, we've been sold the figure of James Bond.

We've been sold that.

So most people, when they get their intelligence, if you like, they're learning about the Secret Service.

Most people get it from books like that or movies like that, and they think that's how it works.

I mean, there is some truth to it.

Where you've got Q, for instance, who has that lab and he makes all his stuff, that's fairly accurate, right?

To be honest with you, there are certain things that need to be manufactured that you couldn't really send out to the private sector.

So they've got their own manufacturing hubs for certain things.