Tag: Riots
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It’s an Unfair Cop
You don’t need to be Jack Regan to know that nicking street dealers doesn’t quash a drug epidemic. That’s picking the low-hanging fruit and boosting arrest statistics, Guv’nor. Lazy coppering provides the flagging flatfoots with a rare opportunity to appear remotely competent at the expense of UK society dropping one notch to a par with 1973…
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Scobie Don’t!
Hallelujah! T’is the season of gaslighting! Spunk sponge Omid Scobie has been probing the shallow waters of incredulity in suggesting that a mistranslation of his book led to the unmasking of the ‘royal racist’. Around the globe, translators are flummoxed because they’ve spent a lifetime translating verbs, nouns, adjectives, and other units of language that…
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Police Farce
While the rank stupidity of a tightly grouped demonstration during a virus pandemic is arguable, let us not ignore that the protest against bolstered police power was met with the flagrant abuse of what fuzz already holds. That was exemplified by beating the crap out of mild-mannered bystanders after having first scarpered from less easy…
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Not a Dry Eye
Less than a year ago, Bristol police stood aside and watched a mob tear down a statue and hoof it into the harbour. The top cop on the scene gave an interview explaining how he ‘understood’ the protestors. He probably understands them a little better today. Those chickens are not only coming home to roost…
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