The Sabine Durrant interview  No place to hide  How big a price
can a woman pay for standing by her man? The partner of exiled
MI6 whistleblower David Shayler lives and loves on the run -
with Big Brother watching her every move Annie Machon and her
boyfriend, David Shayler, the former MI5 officers now living in
Paris, have got used to feeling watched. Their phone plays up.
Their emails go missing. Even the walls of their flat seem to
look down on them. If they want to discuss "an issue", they find
a safe cafe to do it in. A different one each time? "Of course,"
says Machon with a slight curve to her lips. And in bed? "We
have discussed that, yes," she says. "You just try and blank it
out and get on with your life."  She is poised and controlled.
She remains cool even when recalling "sweaty coppers" reading
out her love letters in the course of an interrogation. Even
when describing the state of her underwear ("inside out, with
the crotches turned up as if they'd been sniffing them") after
their flat in Pimli