d’you any of you know about newspapers?” “Yeth, my thecond couthin Igor in Ankh-Morpork told me about them,” said Igor. “They’re like a kind of government announcement.” “Um . . . sort of. Except they’re not written by the government. They’re written by ordinary people who write things down,” said Maladict. “Like a diary?” said Tonker. “Um . . . no . . .” Maladict tried to explain. The squad tried to understand. It still made no sense. It sounded to Polly like some kind of Punch and Judy show. Anyway, why would you trust anything written down? She certainly didn’t trust “Mothers of
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