Yesterday evening, I sat in our local church at the Jubilee concert, and listened to Jerusalem belted out by enthusiastic children from our village school. We still do this kind of thing in the Shire. I was reminded of the shame I feel at being part of an organisation, the police, which has done so [...]

The new Windor-inspired anti-social pay allowance was intended to make sure that frontline police officers like me, who work at night, get paid more than the keyboard rattlers who inhabit the richly carpeted air-conned offices at Ruralshire Constabulary HQ. Mine arrived late in my pay packet at the end of May. Strangely enough, the increased [...]

2001. Conservatives complain about Labour taking people’s pensions. 2001. Conservatives complain about Labour cutting police numbers.