The police can live with looking corrupt, bullying, or tyrannical, but looking stupid is intolerable. It has… — Ben Aaronovitch

First law of gossip—there’s no point knowing something if somebody else doesn’t know you know it.

Ghosts, I was thinking, memories—I wasn’t sure there was a difference.

As property prices started rising, developers snatched up bomb sites and derelict buildings and erected the shapeless concrete lumps that have made the ’70s the shining beacon of architectural splendor that it is.