"The minister for policing and crime prevention had her purse stolen at a conference for senior police officers."

Hard to improve this sentence, try as you may. It happens to be a newspaper article (by #EleniCourea), but this would also make for a fine first sentence of a crisp 80-page novel about the vacuity of modern life.

Also a good pitch for the plotline of a TV comedy episode.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/sep/12/minister-police-diana-johnson-purse-stolen-senior-officer-uk-conference

#SelfReferential #crime #police
#NewsAsLiterature

Minister for police’s purse stolen – at policing conference

Diana Johnson was giving speech in which she said UK was in grip of ‘epidemic of antisocial behaviour, theft and shoplifting’

The Guardian