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It’s a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.

Ben Aaronovitch

That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.
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Extra Morning Next Time
The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they are influencing events. That’s why they hate politicians so much, because politicians have direct power and they do not.
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Events Hate Media
Being a seasoned Londoner, Martin gave the body the “London once-over” – a quick glance to determine whether this was a drunk, a crazy or a human being in distress.
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Crazy Sports Wrestling
When you’re a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don’t want to know.
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Adults Boys Effort
This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there’s someone else to do the housework.
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Children Facts Reason
For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.
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Call Close Hug Moments
What do you think you’re doing?
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Lucky Charm Psycho Thinking
The fact that it was entirely possible for someone to be all three simultaneously is why good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport – like BASE jumping or crocodile wrestling.
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Country Jumping Possible Sport Wrestling
The first rule about a black woman’s hair is you don’t talk about a black woman’s hair. And the second rule is you don’t ever touch a black woman’s hair without getting written permission first.
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Black Firsts Hair
This is your brain on magic.
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Brain Innovation Magic
I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police “first greeting”. “Oi!” I said “What do you think you’re doing?
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First Police Thinking
If you ask any police officer what the worst part of the job is, they will always say breaking bad news to relatives, but this is not the truth.
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Broken Jobs People
The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.
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Sound Study Victim
A physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.
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Bamboo Close Enough Explain Expression Legendary Top
What’s the biggest thing you’ve zapped with a fireball?’ I asked. ‘That would be a tiger,’said Nightingale. ‘Well don’t tell Greenpeace,’ I said. ‘They’re an endagered species.’ ‘Not that sort of tiger,’ said Nightingale. ‘
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Eye Track Two
On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.
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Fire Side Sight

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