News Round-Up
30 October 2024
The Saga of the Benin Bronzes Takes a Farcical New Turn
30 October 2024
by Mike Wells
The Free Speech Union and Fair Cop have threatened the Home Secretary with legal action over her calls to ramp up the recording of 'non-crime hate incidents'.
Niall McCrae recounts an unpleasant encounter with the police at a recent protest against a new migrant detention centre. He was told his placard – urging the authorities to focus on Women's Safety' – was 'offensive'.
An internal team created in the wake of George Floyd's death to make the police “anti-racist” has itself been accused of racism by black officers. You couldn't make it up.
According to teacher Joe Baron, it isn't just our 'weak' laws that are to blame for the shameless anti-social behaviour of teenage boys like Mizzy. It's also feckless parenting and a lack of discipline at school.
A hard-hitting report by Policy Exchange has found the public is rapidly losing confidence in the police, believing them to be more concerned with being ‘woke’ than solving crimes.
Read this piece for Mail+ about the new rainbow-coloured patrol cars the police have introduced in an effort to tackle hate crime. Isn’t it time the woke boys in blue started policing our streets, not our tweets?
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