Anna Chapman: a former spy AND a woman AND a Russian. You've seen James Bond. You know how evil all of those things are.
How relevant is the reference? Chapman was born in 1982. 20 years after that film was released, seven years before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The nature of spying may be a little different these days. Even the Dail Mail referenced a John Le Carré novel about trying to get the hell out of an inhuman, cynical, back-stabbing and amoral environment. They ogled her more than this visually, of course.
Do you remeber those tasteful articles about Alexander Litvinenko headlined 'YOU ONLY LIVE TWICE'? Nah, they went for dull old 'poisoned'.
Stock image cover reproducing a pre-feminist attitude towards women and Cold War xenophobia. Giving an article that was previously only amateurish a good, hard, shove into the lecherous box. Full marks to editor, Tim Lewis.
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