So what’s on your mind kimosabe? Why am I listening to you?

Cycling home at 1.30am is somehow an exhilarating experience – the streets smell different in the absence of exhaust fumes. There was no-one around other than a startled fox, a couple of chaps in Balham loading money from a van into an ATM, and a couple of other chaps on the other side of the street looking as if they had plans to take the cash back out of the ATM and put it into their own van. Even the chav youths had gone home to bed, happy in a Red Stripe and skunk haze.

Went to a deal meeting this morning, attended by two senior finance dudes rejoicing in the names of Mr Sale and Mr Price. It’s not often that such a golden opportunity for a joke arises in a deal meeting. No-one made the joke, of course. Someone did, however, deliberately and with malice aforethought use the phrase “this is a starter for £200million.”

“The West is accusing Muslims of extremism and terrorism. If someone exploded a
bomb on his body he would be right to do so.”

Is anyone else struggling to reconcile the two halves this statement?

Speaking of struggling to reconcile things, I’m heading back to the ‘basis of preparation’ note on page 174 of the VDD report.