I find you get two types of police, those that don’t want to know and those that do. Unfortunately, dealing… — 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.

I’ll say this for the Queen. She was brave—or possibly stupid. It’s easy to mistake the two.

Taking a statement from anyone can be a long process on account of the fact that your average member of the public wouldn’t know the truth if it donned a pink tutu and danced in front of them singing the Chicken Song.