The Health Service Journal has reported that details of those instructed to self isolate will be available to the police. Boris Johnson thinks we are a freedom loving people. His government apparently doesn’t. The people imparting this information will be Data Breach Dido Harding’s test and trace outfit that costs billions but has never ever… Read more
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Being wanted – even if only by the Police
The piece below is characteristically dishonest from Johnson – not only because he says he is investing in policing when he supported and was a member of a government that actually (should we say?) defunded the Police. However since he has promised to ‘refund’ them, then by all accounts there are now an extra 4,000… Read more
Influencing behaviour by opaque messaging?
This social media advert is from the government, though the most prominent logo is that of the NHS, which has turned out to be a favourite technique in an endeavour, presumably, to get us onside. But we are now allowed to gather inside in pubs in untold quantities but apparently not more than 30 outside,… Read more
Criminal Justice
We have all seen the peeing football fan from Essex, who had allegedly consumed 16 pints over the previous night and was, after remonstrations from his father, it seems, encouraged to offer himself up to Essex police. Of course very few public toilets are actually accessible. So how on earth do you cope after 16… Read more
If money is created out of thin air perhaps ‘Silence is Compliance’?
“The only disease right now is the racism that we are fighting.” said England football player Raheem Sterling. He suggests that protesters who took to the streets after the killing of George Floyd are trying to find a solution to injustice. That’s eminently reasonable. But when are we going to get aboard the injustice of… Read more
A Pritti Dire Home Secretary
Below is the oath of an English or Welsh Police Constable. It indicates discretion and that keeping the peace comes first – as do people before property: I, … of … do solemnly and sincerely declare and affirm that I will well and truly serve the Queen in the office of constable, with fairness, integrity,… Read more
‘Subverted by thuggery’ or are we living in revolutionary times?
How Johnson can realistically hold that chucking a statue of Edward Colston into the water is thuggery I really do not know – and he was, after all, supposed to know a bit about thuggery himself. If he’d pointed out that the South West England especially, had for centuries, been subject to kidnapping and slavery… Read more
‘What matters’ is that equality works
We are currently told that Black Lives Matter which, like all lives, of course they do. And while we now discover that the American policeman accused of murder had had 17 complaints against him, none of which seemed to have changed anything, and, indeed there are also instances of American policemen killing white arrestees with… Read more
Macron much more impressive than our lot, but
Macron is rather impressive in his interview for the FT here – and certainly way more reflective and intelligent than our own political pigmies. And although he has made mistakes he has endeavoured to protect his people – which is rather more than our own government “we cannot protect every business and every household” (why… Read more
The economic recovery position is not a walk in the park
It is rumoured in the Sunday papers that Matt Hancock and Rishi Sunak don’t see eye to eye over lockdown – with Hancock favouring a prolonged lockdown and Sunak wanting to get it over with. I’ve no idea if this is right but it certainly looks plausible; I’m not a Hancock fan – not only… Read more