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Steven Dunbar, chief investigator of the Sci-Med Inspectorate (Sci-Med), an independent, but government-funded body located in the UK Home Office and his partner, Natalie (Tally) Simmons, a paediatrician at Great Ormond Street Hospital, took breakfast in their Marlborough Court, London flat while listening to the Today programme on BBC Radio 4. It had become their custom to listen to it every morning, using it as a primer to inform them of what was going on in the world before leaving for work. A politician was being asked what his party’s policy was on something he didn’t seem too keen to talk about. He waffled on about his leader having made it ‘perfectly clear’.

‘Why do they do it?’ Tally complained. ‘Why come on the programme at all when they have no intention of answering questions?’

‘Because they’re...’

‘Strike my last question,’ Tally spluttered, discovering that laughter and cornflakes didn’t mix. ‘I should know better than ask you for your views on politicians.’

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