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Dillon Picks September 2022
The Dillon Empire’s monthly meander into the mires of Medium in search of magnificence.
Due to popular demand, I have decreed that henceforth Dillon Picks shall be compiled by both Reginald the Rigorous and Millicent the Malevolent, unless one or the other is on annual leave, or if one or the other incurs the displeasure of the Dillon Empire. From their introduction, you’ll see they perhaps aren’t thrilled about working together, but I daresay between them they will compile a fine selection for your reading pleasure.
Delegating this task to them means I have more time to brood in the high towers of Fortress Dillon, wondering if I have amassed enough genetically engineered super-soldiers for the conquest of Leicester Square. I offered the present owners £260, the price listed on the Monopoly board game. They laughed, and said I’d be lucky to get a square millimetre of Leicester Square for that price. Apparently, it wasn’t for sale either. That leaves me no choice but to conquer it militarily, as I wish to own the superb cinemas it contains (the Empire, Prince Charles, Odeon, etc).
What will change once Leicester Square is part of the Dillon Empire? Very little, though I will reduce the rents of the aforementioned cinemas in return for free tickets for life, for me and whomever the…