FAUSTUS AND OTHER PROBLEMS Jameson was seriously pissed off, well and truly miffed. He accepted that a pension for a Commission field operative was largely a theoretical concept because he wouldn’t live to collect, but he never expected to die of boredom. He also hated getting up in the early morning. In fact, the list of things he hated about the current operation would fill a Kindle. He fidgeted in his car seat, playing with the radio. The popular classic station was playing Wagner, for the fifteenth time that week. Radio 3, the BBC serious music channel, was broadcasting an experimental symphony for massed lawn mowers and typewriter. BBC Radio 2 fielded a chat-show presenter reminiscing about his upbringing in rural Ireland. You had to be seven or have had a frontal lobotomy to like BBC Radio 1. Reluctantly, he put on Radio 4’s morning heavyweight news analysis. The formidable BBC journalist, Jeremy Paxman, was skewering a politician to the proverbial wall. Jameson wondered why they all bothered.
