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Bruce
Bruce
6 years ago

Don’t you love it when grammar are an afterthought?

Grackle
Grackle
6 years ago
Reply to  Bruce

The subject-verb issue here is actually just British English.

There’s no similar excuse for the rest of the cover. (Though I do have to admit I kind of love the very terse tombstone.)

dtw
dtw
6 years ago
Reply to  Grackle

Ehhh… don’t blame us. If it were solely down to local English variety, then it would also say “Were the UK government involved” too – government is just as much a collective noun as unit is.
I’d much prefer “A rogue MI5 unit is again running amok…”

Grackle
Grackle
6 years ago
Reply to  dtw

Good point and thank you for the clarification!

Krag Churchill
Krag Churchill
6 years ago

Isn’t that the guy from Home Alone?

Philo
Philo
6 years ago
Reply to  Krag Churchill

I thought it was Captain Picard on the Holodeck.

David Avoura King
6 years ago

I read it as “An MI5 rogue unit are again”, then there’s a huge gap. So what is the actual title?

B.L. Alley
6 years ago

Does this mean an MI5 rogue unit were before? What is the name of that book?