Blaise

Blaise Metreweli, who joined the Secret Intelligence Service in 1999, will become the 18th chief of the organisation and take over from Sir Richard Moore later this year.

"Blaise is a highly accomplished intelligence officer and leader, and one of our foremost thinkers on technology," he said.

"I know Blaise will continue to provide the excellent leadership needed to defend our county and keep our people safe," he added.

"We used to wake up in the morning to dead bodies on the streets," says Blaise Eyong, a journalist from Kumba in the English-speaking South-West region of Cameroon, who has produced and presented a documentary on the crisis for BBC Africa Eye, and was forced from his hometown with his family in 2019.

And Einstein was echoing French mathematician Blaise Pascal, who wrote in the 17th century that “we sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty.”