The Daily Mail had the scoop but the media had caught the smell of blood in the water and twenty-four-hour… — Ben Aaronovitch

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.

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.