He looked almost like a minister; slight, bookish, almost tentative. Like a deer lost from the herd. Turns out he was a cop, an ex-cop going to university, but a cop just the same.
We got to talking about the history of London, the real history. Which is always more bloodthirsty, and interesting for that matter, than the written stuff.
“The chances of a Londoner being murdered in 2017 is 1 in 100,000. Fifty years ago that chance was 1 in 50,000. The chance of being murdered in London increases by half every 50 years so that in Shakespeare’s day your chance of being murdered was 50/50. A lot of children in Shakespeare’s time never saw all four of their grandparents.”
- Ex London cop going to university taking history.
Rick Ranson 