In that bonkers novel, ‘Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas’, Hunter S. Thompson has a great line (well, in some ways, he has several) about crime in America: ‘In a closed society where everybody’s guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity.’ But not even […]
David Lammy didn’t cover himself in glory this week in Parliament. Our Lord Chancellor chortled and guffawed while his shadow Robert Jenrick tried to hold him to account for the release in error of a registered child sex offender from HMP Chelmsford whose crime sparked national protests. The shelf life of ‘but the Tories’ as […]
The figures are in. At this year’s Notting Hill Carnival, a total of 334 arrests were made by the Metropolitan Police. Up from the previous year’s 275 arrests, this included dozens for an assault on an emergency worker and possession of an offensive weapon. Along with the 50 police officers injured, there were eight stabbings, with […]
