Ministry of Truth

In case you’re not already convinced: Iraqi interpreters working for the British Army have been advised to leave Basra or be killed. The warning was issued by a leading member of the city’s security forces after militiamen attacked and destroyed the home of one interpreter and narrowly failed […]

I’m really not sure quite what to make of the case in Waltham Forest in which Miranda Grell is currently awaiting a verdict on two counts of making false statements about an opponent, a sitting Lib Dem councillor and cabinet member, during the course of the 2006 local […]

Been appallingly busy with real world stuff of late, but having been pointed, by Mr Eugenides, to this excellent and finely nuanced commentary on the increasingly tortuous ‘relationship’ between the media and the McCanns – way to go Kulvinder – I can’t resist throwing my own twopennorth into […]

I’m going to break off from the business of pulling apart Cameron’s vacuous and tendentious mini-manifesto on law and order for a moment… …to pull apart Cameron’s vacuous and tendentious remarks on the subject of immigration. Changing the subject, in this case, does not require too much in […]

This one’s going to be short and sweet: 1.4 Reform the police Empowering beat officers and freeing up police time must be accompanied by real measures to ensure that these new powers are used properly. We need a culture of proactive policing. Yet as the Association of Chief […]

I suppose I can’t let today pass without some comment on the 10th anniversary of Diana getting street pizza’d in a Paris tunnel… …and this is it, courtesy of Saint Hairy Bob of Africa: [youtube]it45ankt0Ds[/youtube] In case anyone misses the message here, Paul Linford has put up five […]

On to part 2 of my look at the Tory’s mini-manifesto on crime, and to yet more carping about bureaucracy and Bobbies on the beat: 1.3 Permanent police visibility A permanent police visibility on the streets is by far the most effective deterrent against crime. Currently the average […]

This is the first of a series of posts over the next few days in which Ill be dismantling the Tory’s ‘mini manifesto’ on Law and Order, piece by piece, starting with its specific proposals and then finishing up with the proposed ‘Social Covenant’. So lets kick things […]

Without wishing to spoil anyone’s anticipation of the upcoming publication of Iain Dale’s latest guide to political blogging, I’m one of forty bloggers who has a self-penned entry in the book’s ‘Who’s Who’ section, in which I make the point that one of things that motivates my writing […]

The Times has published an intriguing allegation regarding the background to the pedal-by shooting of Rhys Jones that, perhaps better than anything else I’ve read in the last few days, explains why its important that we crack down on teenage street gangs in the UK: Detectives believe that […]