"Currently none of us are funded by anything though, which is a nice change, I think," the boffin said. Q was mindful not to speak ill of the government at work, he had bills to pay after all, and no desire to wind up 'missing', but he very definitely wasn't all about queen and country the way James was.

"And really, let's be honest, they're all in one another's pockets, aren't they? The rich, the politicians, it's all one very small and filthy circle of greed. In a way, we're practically family," the boffin drawled.