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What Are the Police For, Again? [Part 2]

Well, I never! No sooner had I said a thing or two about the time-wasting resource-poor police than there they were in the papers! Following my recent piece about two officers turning up at newspaper columnist Jenny Murray’s home in quick time because she had an ‘experience’ of being nearly…

What Are the Police For, Again?

Intrigued. Confused. I have no idea what the hell is going on. All of the above. Jenny Murray recently wrote in her newspaper column that she was nearly a victim of a finance scam. She had answered a call from a ‘No Caller ID’ named Dan who told her (in…

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The State is in a State!

Well, blouse and skirt me! A single mum of eight, Marie Buchan, is in a state of distress. She has to get off her comfortable rear end and get a job. Why? Her very generous welfare benefits of £26,000 a year are being cut to a “measly £23,000”. And she…

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Knives in Schools (Again): Will Lessons Ever Be Learnt?

Here we go again! Sorry, that’s not a line from a pop song. It is a sad indictment of our time. Knife crime (on the streets), rampant as it is, is one thing. Knives in school is another. Here we are barely getting our feet under the new year table,…

Happy New Year?

It is only mid-January. And I am already in a huff! Why? I will tell you in a minute. Over the past few days, I have had an invitation to my alma mater (well, one of them), the one where I completed my law degree. This is an invitation to…