2026 Oct
‘One soul fewer’
‘Godforsaken annex’
‘Mistaken policemen for friends’
‘Never mind’
‘Actions have consequences which harm and ensnare others.’
‘Happened did not’
Book Review: Slow Horses (2010)
‘Barrette’
‘More peopled’
‘Which direction the favours would flow’
‘The trouble with you lot’
‘The last person you trust is the one you just did a favour’
‘Alliances foundered’
‘Major problem’
‘The best kind. The ones you never meet.’
‘Unhealthy memory’
‘More deaths than picnics’
‘Know his way around a gym’
‘Verisimilitude’
‘Hitler’s birthday or something’
‘Immaterial’
‘Open windows’
‘Might appreciate it’
‘Everyone has to be someone’
‘If that’s all right’
‘Not as badly hurt as he’s dead’
‘Wrapped inside a pixel’
‘Lived in shoeboxes’
‘Fate and poor judgement’
‘Tortilla chips’
‘Washout’
‘Attempt at Everest’
‘Visible enemy’
‘Bounced and bashed’
‘Boot’
‘Everywhere’
‘Washed away’
‘Quenched by quotidian drudgery’
‘Connivance’
‘Keen on playing the judge’
‘Tell-tale’
2026 Sep
‘Flight fund’
‘Gherkin’
‘Fluttering things’
‘Keep an eye on the place’
‘Factotum’
‘Swallowed by the shadows’
‘Flying fart’
‘Flipside’
‘Sod all’
‘Tripped on his dick’
‘Wasn’t any good’
‘Measure’
‘Long enough to remove your coat’
‘Ring back’
‘Thumbs & bananas’
‘Hobbs’
‘Edges on which outcomes balanced’
‘Keep talking’
‘Smiled, but turned away’
‘Pretty special indeed’
‘Anywhere you’d want to cook a meal’
‘Half fun’
2026 Aug
‘Something dragged round’
‘Fighting the same battles’
‘Shared Silence’
‘Under Wraps’
‘Magic was unavailable’
2026 Jul
‘Just want him to be unhappy’
‘Ho’s house’
‘Small victory’
‘Kicking down doors’
‘Battle lines’
‘Moving staircase’
‘Steps, one after another’
‘Exhausted white’
‘Slough House’
‘Deemed as being of account’
2025 Sep
‘Shared silence’
‘Don’t think of’
‘Don’t worry’
2025 Aug
‘Real or not’
‘Meant to learn’
‘Magic was unavailable’
‘Haphazard’
‘The skins we slough’
‘Supposed to be doing’
‘Repeated enough’
‘Matter of time’
‘Bones’
‘Cared when it mattered’
‘You needed your need’
‘A tattered remnant’
‘Tattoo’
‘Surrender to amusement’
2025 Jul
‘Slough House Slow Horse’
‘Holding a stick’
‘Upgraded to a security threat’
‘Blew a raspberry’
‘Leaked’
‘A fort’
2025 Apr
‘Egg-Fried Rice’
‘Phlegmatic cool’