George Barber, Fences Make Senses (2015)

It happened so fast. I heard a rip, saw a blur of yellow tarpaulin, and then saw the panicking youth. He dropped down onto City Road and began to sprint in the direction of Islington. The lorry driver, who was already on the pavement and could have come from anywhere in…

Theodore Price, COBRA RES 1.9 (2015)

For those of you blissfully unaware, COBRA stands for Cabinet Office Briefing Room A, and despite first appearances the acronym has nothing to do with James Bond. COBRA meetings are convened by the Prime Minister in times of special crisis. And in the UK we tend to lurch from crisis to…