Joe Country

“Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority.”

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“You built a life the way you’d build a wall, one brick on top of the other, but sooner or later, those first bricks were taken away.”

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“The voice meant well, but should fuck off.”

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“Several people warned me about taking on this role, you know. They seemed to think that there were easier ways of securing a seat in the Lords.”

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“It turned out that in the governance of a nation’s security, many absurd situations had to be worked around: a toxic clown in the Foreign Office [Boris Johnson], a state visit by a narcissistic bed-wetter [Trump], the tendency of the electorate to 'jump off' the occasional cliff [Brexit].”

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“...he couldn’t help wondering how it had felt: refugees turning up from concentration camps, from a broken Europe, to find this bleak estate; its squat huts their new homes. There’d been watch towers and barbed wire fences. It can’t have looked like freedom. But freedom was measured, he supposed, by what you were leaving behind.”

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“That was what life was: you worked, sometimes you couldn't sleep, and your future was already being shaped. Until something crashed into it and knocked everything out of true.”

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“The thought processes of a man who'd relax with his shoes off, his coat on, were foreign territory to Lech.Then again, the thought processes of Jackson Lamb, as revealed by their subsequent conversation, were probaby terra incognita to the psychiatric profession as a whole.”

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