Taking a statement from anyone can be a long process on account of the fact that your average member of the… — 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.

This was the Wyldewood, spelt with a Y, that once covered the Island of Britain and would again, once the pesky tool-using primates had done the decent thing and exterminated themselves.