Some ask darkly whether politicians have an interest in prolonged chaos, as some of them might lose powers of patronage if a modern bureaucracy were to emerge.
Faced with more taxes, thickets of red tape, interference with pay and a new and hostile regulator, the Bank of England, these firms darkly hint that they might move elsewhere.
Sam Lipsyte made his name with "Home Land" (2005), a darkly funny book written as letters to an alumni newsletter.
The younger boy had already run off towards a motley collection of mud brick houses nearby; but the eldest was still there, muttering darkly, chest out, showing that he wasn't intimidated.
Mistakes result in the game's nameless boy expiring in sad little deaths that generate the game's simultaneously chilling and darkly humorous tone.
Ask those eyes, darkly planning mischief, whose fault it was.
Officials mutter darkly that some bankers first shorted currencies and bank shares, and then published research notes forecasting default or devaluation.
