Bishop, a journalist, and Cushing, a statistician, argue that the social and political balkanization of the past 30 years — microtargeted marketing, the proliferation of TV channels, more extreme political parties — is potentially dangerous.
My only fear is, that we have already sunk beneath the Ollapods of former times; and the bleeding pole and the fillet, which once graced the door of the barber-surgeon, were really respectable in comparison with the advertisements and handbills which are put forth by members of royal colleges in these days.
PC Winters gunned the patrol car out of the side road where they'd been parked, bored and waiting for the end of their shift, and took off in hot pursuit.