Their work was undercover—yet their existence unconcealed. That is how fear works. - Lindsey Davis

[Y]ou would think happy wedding guests would tuck in with gusto—yet ... [i]t’s mourners at funerals who scoff.” “Because this is food as human comfort, plus respect for the national gods. We are one with our ancestors and one with our fellow mourners.

He listened with the mild demeanour of a man who had waited eight years for his town council to draw up a specification for emergency repairs.

If being hit on the head by a falling flower tub could be worth cash to the victim, what price a child’s life under civil law?