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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.
Inside, the mortuary was much the same as the rest of the hospital, only with fewer people complaining about the state of the NHS.
Once they start to think about the consequences they almost always calm down – unless they’re drunk of course, or stoned, or aged between fourteen and twenty-one, or Glaswegian.
the clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop.
The police can live with looking corrupt, bullying or tyrannical, but looking stupid is intolerable.
When all the map was pink, I thought. When every boy expected his own adventure and girls had not yet been invented.
ABC of serious investigation: Assume nothing, Believe nothing and Check everything.
We were aiming for a cross between Kafka and Orwell, which just goes to show how dangerous it can be when your police officers are better read than you are.
The space is criss-crossed at random intervals by escalators, presumably because the architects felt that disorientation and an inability to find the toilets were an integral part of the shopping experience.
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.
