“Come on then,” yelled Beverley, for whom de-escalation was something that happened to other people. - Ben Aaronovitch

“These people are not to be trusted,” I said.
“These people?”
“People with…” I looked over at the poshest person I’ve ever met and tried to think of the right word. “Entitlement,” I said. “They’re not good at keeping promises.

It’s a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.

Few buildings evoke the sinister horror of 1950s municipal architecture more strikingly than the flat roofed pub. Thrown up in their thousands wherever the working class were being rehoused, it’s hard to imagine that the architects were not secret teetotallers looking to make the whole pub experience as grim as possible.