Note. 'During the 1950s and 1960s, he worked for both the Security Service (MI5) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6).' [..] 'In January 2003, two months prior to the invasion, The Times published le Carré's essay "The United States Has Gone Mad” criticising the buildup to the Iraq War and President George W. Bush's response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, calling it "worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War" and "beyond anything Osama bin Laden could have hoped for in his nastiest dreams". Le Carré contributed it to a volume of political essays titled Not One More Death (2006). Other contributors include Richard Dawkins, Brian Eno, Michel Faber, Harold Pinter, and Haifa Zangana.'
In 2017, le Carré stated, "I think of all things that were happening across Europe in the 1930s, in Spain, in Japan, obviously in Germany. To me, these are absolutely comparable signs of the rise of fascism and it’s contagious, it’s infectious. Fascism is up and running in Poland and Hungary. There’s an encouragement about".'