It is just a simple borkage. It be a mean thing. But it could not be stated that the program failure was of extremely high importance, not – it was just a typical accident, and some of them occurs from time to time in the Dream System Centre.

No one wanted the chairpersonship, and in the event it went to someone who was ‘socially unacceptable’.

[O]ne minute this Jihadi John was struggling to get by, and get accepted, in drizzly England, unemployed with a mortgage to pay and a chip on his shoulder, and the next he stands in brilliant Levantine sunlight, where everything is clear and etched, at the vanguard of some Sunni Risorgimento intent on subjecting the world to its murderous brand of Wahhabi Islam.

The homestead lies half a mile from the road, a small bungalow built of weatherboard with an iron roof and with verandas on three sides […]