Police farce
CAN anyone still doubt that policing is broken?
Time and again innocent people are arrested by halfwitted coppers over some non-offence, locked up for hours then set free without charge after their life has been cruelly upended.
All while REAL criminals — like the thieving plankton still looting — saunter away scot-free.
The message of fictional drama , which the Left considers mandatory viewing, is that parents should limit kids’ screen time.
History teacher did just that with her iPad-fixated girls and got banged up for seven hours for “theft”;.
Her treatment was both repugnant and ludicrous.
Every officer involved should be disciplined.
But it is just part of an epidemic of chronic ineptitude.
Last month six plod arrested a couple for .
Newspaper columnist was grilled by cops over a tweet sent and deleted a year earlier.
chiefs ignore real villains and harass ordinary people for “non-crime hate”;.
Meanwhile their forces “boost diversity”; reportedly by barring white recruits or, like Thames Valley, launching “equity training”; at which cops must atone for their “white privilege”;.
Forces seem overrun by feeble liberal-left graduates indoctrinated at university into extremes of wokery and blind to their actual function: To protect the law-abiding from genuinely bad people.
Home Secretary must urgently turn this disaster round.
Cod help him
IN this volatile world, security co-operation should be paramount in minds.
The saner ones accept that Britain is a vital defence partner.
is far more concerned about fish.
He is still blocking a security pact unless we let his trawlers catch more of it in UK waters.
He also wants us to defy the vote to restart free-movement for young people.
No wonder he is being ridiculed by EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas.
Does Macron take defence seriously?
If conquers and sets its sights on the rest of , will he still carp on about herring?
Growth spurt
AT last, some decent economic growth we can briefly celebrate.
February’s healthy 0.5 per cent rise is a surprise, but hugely welcome.
That said, it is the first proper uptick under — and mainly fuelled by an exports rush to avoid the had long threatened.
Now his ten per cent tax is in place.
And that, plus Labour’s self-harming jobs tax, are both likely to crush growth.
Cooler Labour heads are wary of gloating over one positive monthly figure.
