Renaming the Met Police would give it a license to ignore wholesale reform April 17, 2023 After scandal after scandal have rocked the Metropolitan Police, and the Casey review has found shocking sexism, racism and homophobia. A new name won't change its habits, writes Eliot Wilson.
Analysis: The latest Met investigation is proof systematic failures go a long way back April 7, 2023 “We’ve been too permissive, that’s very very clear” was the admission Met chief Mark Rowley made on Thursday, when speaking about the admission criteria for policemen. It comes after the force published the results of its latest investigation into the conduct of its officers, and found 196 members of staff will have to go through [...]
London will NOT be next: Paris bans e-scooters after mini referendum April 3, 2023 Parisians have overwhelmingly voted to banish for-hire e-scooters from the streets of the French capital, in a mini-referendum the mayor said sent a “very clear message”. Approximately 15,000 e-scooters could now vanish from central Paris at the end of August when the city’s contracts with the three operators expire. In Paris, the question that City [...]
Cracking down on law and order to win the next election March 27, 2023 Trust on crime preventions is the Conservatives’ to lose.
In London, we have no other option but to break up the Metropolitan Police March 23, 2023 The Metropolitan Police has had years to make things right - but it hasn't done it. It's time we admit we should reform it for good - and the best way is to break it up, writes Will Cooling
PMQs sketch: Starmer’s cameo on Law & Order March 22, 2023 When in doubt, dig in on law and order. This is underlined, twice, in Sir Keir Starmer’s playbook. The American TV show was, after all, running for more than twenty years, so surely they know a thing or two about what people want. Indeed, the Labour leader was spoilt for choice with Conservative chaos today. [...]
Partygate: Johnson ally admits ‘bring your own booze’ email invite was ‘totally inappropriate’ March 22, 2023 An email inviting No10 staff to “socially distanced drinks” during the Covid-19 pandemic was “totally inappropriate” in its wording, the senior official who sent it has admitted. Martin Reynolds, then Boris Johnson’s principal private secretary, emailed staff inviting them to come for drinks in the No10 garden during the “lovely weather” on May 20, 2020. [...]
From crime to health, Britain can’t see beyond acute needs for public services March 22, 2023 Failures at the Metropolitan Police; the slow-motion collapse of the NHS; strikes across industries. Our public services are geared towards acute need, over stopping that acute need in the first place, writes Rosie Beacon.
Boris Johnson claims reason for partygate fines ‘remains unclear’ March 21, 2023 Boris Johnson has claimed it “remains unclear” to him – and possibly to Rishi Sunak – why they were fined for breaching lockdown laws after the Met Police investigation into partygate. The former prime minister has released his defence dossier ahead of a marathon evidence session before the cross-party parliamentary privileges committee tomorrow. In the [...]
Boris Johnson admits misleading Parliament over Partygate but says it was ‘unintentional’ March 21, 2023 Boris Johnson has denied “intentionally” misleading parliament over alleged breaches of lockdown rules during parties at 10 Downing Street. Johnson acknowledged his claims to MPs, that Covid rules had been “followed at all times,” did not “turn out to be correct.” However, the former prime minister denied deliberately misleading parliament, as he claimed he immediately [...]