The problem with ebook filesharing is simply one of scale. But I think the "piracy" problem is massively over-rated.

We are, after all, homo economicus.

I began my first novel when I was 15. It went through three drafts, of around 40,000 words each. If I find it, I'll burn it.

I don't do football. (Grew up in Leeds in the 1970s. Football there was indellibly associated with the National Front, i.e. violent fascist skinheads.)

Publishing is the final step in making a book; if I was afraid to publish one, I wouldn't write it in the first place.

I have not watched the TV show. I do not generally watch TV sci-fi drama shows. They make me itch.

Most people think spies are afraid of guns, or KGB guards, or barbed wire, but in point of fact the most dangerous thing they face is paper. Papers carry secrets. Papers carry death warrants. Papers like this one, this folio with its blurry eighteen year old faked missile photographs and estimates of time/survivor curves and pervasive psychosis ratios, can give you nightmares, dragging you awake screaming in the middle of the night.