Guy Gavriel Kay I’m happier not pretending I know anything about El Cid in Spain. He’s a Spanish national hero. I’d rather invent a character inspired by him but clearly not identical to him. And then I feel liberated creatively. – Guy Gavriel Kay
Cressida Dick Looking back to when I joined, some areas of policing were barred for women. So you couldn’t do full public order training, you couldn’t carry a firearm as a woman in the Met until 1988, there were no women dog handlers, and there was probably one woman in CID. – Cressida Dick
Cressida Dick When I joined there was probably one woman in the CID office and one in the crime squad and just two of us on a team of about 40 or 50 people. – Cressida Dick
