Wired takes a look inside the secret crisis command centre deep under London where Mr David Cameron will spend the Apocalypse vacillating while Mr. Clegg chunters on about proportional representation for the survivors.
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Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Secret command centre: London
Wired takes a look inside the secret crisis command centre deep under London where Mr David Cameron will spend the Apocalypse vacillating while Mr. Clegg chunters on about proportional representation for the survivors.
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The stack of books on the DO's shelf was interesting. Bravo on the Tom Clancy and Len Deighton, but Ian Fleming? (And what the heck is "Divorce Jack"? A how-to-do-it?)
ReplyDeleteAs for the rest of it, I saw that the stores included toothbrushes, mouthwash, soap, etc.- but no bathroom tissue. Sir Winston Churchill's WW II underground CP was built without a loo- did they forget it this time around, as well?
Exactly why Cameron even needs a protected, underground CP is hard to discern. After everything has fallen to H**l due to several administrations' (including his) systematic gutting of Her Majesty's Armed Forces, does he anticipate coming out like a gopher after it's all over and greeting the conquerors with a fruit basket?
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eon
The books:
ReplyDeleteIn God's Name by David Yallop
The Ipcress File by Len Deighton
The Brendan Voyage by Tim Severin
The Surgeon of Crowthorne by Simon Winchester
Op Centre* by Tom Clancy
Casino Royale by Ian Fleming
(Illegible)
Divorcing Jack by Colin Bateman
(A magazine or trade paperback. Title not visible.)
(A coffee table book. Title not visible.)
London Orbital by Iain Sinclair
Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy
Note:
Tom Clancy's Op-Center is a novel series, created by Tom Clancy, though the series is actually written by Steve Pieczenik and Jeff Rovin.
Centre is British for Center.