After that I was up and ready for action. It might have been a Saturday, but below the rank of chief inspector weekends are an entirely notional conc… - Ben Aaronovitch

Desperate people do desperate things," said Spencer-Talbot. "Perhaps if we all did more to make things less desperate, then perhaps there would be less violence.

He’d obviously wanted to tell someone about it for a long time and I was a convenient ear.
I get that a lot. Stephanopoulos calls it my secret weapon.
“It’s that vacant expression,” she said. “People just want to fill the empty void.”

Now, personally, I’d have been happier driving an armored personnel carrier in through the front door. But since we’re the Met, and not the police department of a small town in Missouri, we didn’t have one.