Dillon Picks April 2022
The Dillon Empire separates prime cuts from gristle in this month’s selection of favourite Medium articles.
The Dillon Empire has commissioned me, Reginald the Rigorous, Secretary to His Imperial Majesty Emperor Simon Dillon, to present the official selection for this month’s Dillon Picks. Until recently, I was but a humble functionary on the Emperor’s palace staff, normally seconded to more menial jobs such as dusting the Blu Ray and DVD cases (a particularly arduous task in view of the sheer volume of films in the Imperial library), or feeding less useful prisoners to the dragons that maintain an aerial patrol around the various other defences of Fortress Dillon. However, after my performance review noted a significant increase in sycophantic platitudes, in his beneficence, our magnificent Emperor elevated me to this exalted position.
The Emperor apologises for not writing this article in person, but he is presently planning military strategies to reclaim Cadbury from the Americans. He intends to return this much-beloved UK national treasure to British control, revert to the original Crème Egg recipe (ie with proper Cadbury’s dairy milk chocolate, not whatever the hell the Mondelez overlords think constitutes “chocolate” based on their woefully underserved tastebuds), and have it nationalised (ahead of…