When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults in an effort to tell you things that you either already know or really don't want to know.
Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much.… - Ben Aaronovitch
Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much.…
- Ben Aaronovitch
The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an office… - Ben Aaronovitch
The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an office…
If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet. - Ben Aaronovitch
If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet.
Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored. - Ben Aaronovitch
Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.
This is your brain on magic. - Ben Aaronovitch
This is your brain on magic.
It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind. - Ben Aaronovitch
It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.
You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself. - Ben Aaronovitch
You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.
That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time. - Ben Aaronovitch
That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.
My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you're born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go thr… - Ben Aaronovitch
My Dad says that being a Londoner has nothing to do with where you're born. He says that there are people who get off a jumbo jet at Heathrow, go thr…
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