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"I believed wrongly that there was integrity and a moral fibre in the top structure. But it seems that I was wrong," Eugene de Kock, former South African police colonel and assassin, 1 October 1997.

"Landlords grow rich in their sleep," - motivational poster quoting John Stuart Mill, seen in the window of Chase Wealth Australia, 25 January 2021

"If Yeltsin suspends an anti-democratic Parliament, it is not necessarily an anti-democratic act." - Anonymous Clinton Administration official quoted in the New York Times, 13 March 1993

"I like my history in high-definition, widescreen, full, vibrant colour." - Scott Morrison, Australian Prime Minister, first speech to parliament, 14 February 2008.

"There’s just not really that much you can tell without knowing who people voted for," - Nate Silver, statistician and editor of FiveThirtyEight, 4 November 2020.

In which I declare my sources for the series so far...

In which we take advantage of a loophole...

In which we keep our nose to the grindstone...

In which a cryptographer explains how it should be done...

In which we start getting results...