Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.
BEN AARONOVITCHWhen 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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I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police “first greeting”. “Oi!” I said “What do you think you’re doing?
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My dad was a fairy,” said Zach. “And by that I don’t mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.
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It’s a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.
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The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class.
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…don’t ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let’s just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.
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This is your brain on magic.
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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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The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn’t set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.
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Are they really gods?” “I never worry about theological questions,” said Nightingale. “They exist, they have power and they can breach the Queen’s peace – that makes them a police matter.
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He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn’t know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.
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The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop
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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.
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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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Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.
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…good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport – like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.
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