Like young men from the dawn of time, I decided to choose the risk of death over certain humiliation.
It's a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.
It's a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.
If you ask any copper why they stick at a job which exposes them to abuse from everyone from petty criminals all the way down to government ministers, they’ll say it’s the variety.
He threw a fireball at me. I threw a chimney stack at him - that's the London way.
Did he just ask us to lie to a senior officer? I asked.Yup, said Leslie.
That which does not kill us, I said, has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.
MIU was still stuffed into their overheated office space. Luckily somebody had sprung for an industrial-sized cooling fan with a face the same diameter as a dustbin lid and an unfortunate tendency to...
It's important for a man to know his limitations, and my limitations started at moving to Peckham and hanging around with yardies, postcode wannabes and those weird, skinny white kids who don't get th...
If you find yourself talking to the police, my advice is to stay calm but look guilty; it's your safest bet.
I woke in the hour before dawn, stuck in that strange state where the memory of your dreams is still powerful enough to motivate your actions.
First law of gossip - there's no point knowing something if somebody else doesn't know you know it.
CO19, the Met’s firearms unit, whose unofficial motto is, Guns don’t kill people, we kill people with guns.
The rules of English grammar are largely an artificial construct with little or no bearing on the language as it is spoke.
You have to call me Master. Master? That’s the tradition, said Nightingale. I said the word in my head and it kept on coming out massa.
What's the biggest thing you've zapped with a fireball?' I asked.'That would be a tiger,'said Nightingale.'Well don't tell Greenpeace,' I said. 'They're an endagered species.''Not that sort of tiger,'...
We did a joint evaluation of video evidence encompassing all possible access points in conjunction with BTP and CLP, and despite widening the parameters of our assessment to include registered and non...
The word ‘bollocks’ is one of the most beautiful and flexible in the English language. It can be used to express emotional states ranging from ecstatic surprise to weary resignation in the face of ine...
The rest of the band faded down to almost nothing while my dad did his best Bill Evans impression — except hopefully without the untreated hepatitis.
Something round and dirty and white was resting near my foot. It was a skull. I picked it up.‘Is that you, Nicholas?’ I asked.‘Put that down, Peter,’ said Nightingale. ‘You don’t know where it’s been.