This is soooo fantastic,’ murmured the Press Secretary.
The Prime Minister watched the television screen, fascinated.
A manic Japanese man – a hapless tourist, as it turned out – was shouting, panic-stricken, at the camera on his smartphone. This had been rebroadcast via mainstream media in the last half hour and English subtitles had been added.
‘They’re everywhere!’ the man gabbled. ‘They’re killing us! What do I do?! They killed a man, they killed him!’
The scene changed as wobbly film, recorded from a distance, showed a woman lying on the ground, almost completely submerged in a mound of domestic rabbits of all colours. She was a large woman and every now and again she flailed weakly, making a chubby limb discernible above the sea of fur.
She was screaming with laughter, gasping a
