Lex Ferenda Over the last 50 years or so we have become victims of an experiment by liberal policy makers, exacerbated more lately by our attachment to Europe and the Human Rights Act. These naive policies, which have supposedly given individuals more freedoms, have in fact resulted in the majority having their freedoms eroded. In the case of crime, the  [ Read More ]

Bystander I have seen it scores of times, but it never fails to leave me feeling sad. A scruffy young man is in the dock, charged with a serious offence that is likely to end up with something like eighteen months from Hizonner in the (likely) event of his conviction. In the gallery is a  [ Read More ]

Lex Ferenda Well, last night London was at peace again, although elsewhere in the country the feral youths went on the rampage encouraged by the scenes in London over the last few days. ‘Free stuff’ is too much of an attraction for the underclass who waste their lives rather than even think about becoming useful  [ Read More ]

Lex Ferenda One of my PCs is taking the Part 2 Promotion exam. He is not a bad lad and if he passes I will recommend him for promotion next year, not now. Today he showed me one of the Part 2 practice papers. Looking at the problem and the marking sheet I think I  [ Read More ]

Toby Quast I turned 16 recently and I started noticing things about South London. The most obvious of all is the paranoia of crime. Before my birthday I had cruised by, always looking too young to have anything of value on me. Although the chances of being mugged haven’t changed at all (unless all the  [ Read More ]