"I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting".……" — Ben Aaronovitch
"I gave the prescribed Metropolitan Police "first greeting". "Oi!" I said "What do you think you're doing?"
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34 Quotes by Ben Aaronovitch
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Somebody doesn't know they're not in Kansas anymore,' said Stephanopoulos.
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What do you think you're doing?
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Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.
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The media are doing this, not because they have a sinister motive, but because they love to feel that they…
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When you're a boy your life can be measured out as a series of uncomfortable conversations reluctantly initiated by adults…
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Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science…
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The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion…
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Are they really gods?" "I never worry about theological questions," said Nightingale. "They exist, they have power and they can…
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You put a spell on the dog," I said as we left the house. "Just a small one," said Nightingale.…
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...good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport - like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.
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The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn't set fire to the tablecloth the cook is…
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