I rang her and left a message identifying myself and giving an impression of urgency without actually saying anything concrete. Never record anything… - Ben Aaronovitch

The Daily Mail had the scoop but the media had caught the smell of blood in the water and twenty-four-hour news outlets were running the bulletin every half an hour, with a teaser on the quarter in case your attention span was that short.

You know how some people work at being stupid?" she asked. "If you give them a clear, common sense choice they give it a lot of thought and then choose stupid.

I asked Reynolds if she could put the bodyguards on what we’d taken to calling the Unreality List of people that might be magical, members of the demi-monde or suspiciously weird.
“It would save ever so much time,” Reynolds had said when we set it up, “if we just added the population of Florida right at the start.”