Author: Percy Blakeney

Scottish police under fire after being overwhelmed by a surge in Hate Crime reports, Leading to fewer cases being solved. Taking the focus away from crimes of shoplifting, theft and assault. Scottish police under fire Recent figures suggest that Scotland’s police force is struggling to solve everyday crimes like shoplifting, theft, and assault crimes due to the overwhelming number of reports made under the country’s new hate crime law. The Scottish Police Federation (SPF) chairman, David Threadgold, has expressed concerns about the situation, stating that the vow to investigate every report of hate crime has created an unmanageable workload for…

There is a new Television series that started this week focusing on fare dodgers on London Transport

Even George Orwell couldn’t have predicted this chaotic constitutional crisis afflicting the so-called Mother of Parliaments. Political events are not only changing rapidly, but they are also shockingly perverse in their outcomes. We now have a Conservative Party ruled by the extreme right. An ugly hybrid of the worst kind of English Nationalism we have not seen since the rhetoric of Enoch Powell. Indeed sitting there on the benches of those Tories who believe passionately in saving the United Kingdom from the calamities of a No Deal Brexit – now deemed to be ‘rebels’ – was none other than the…

A few weeks ago I wrote about the outcry from the public over the lavish multi-million pound costs British taxpayers had to fork out to cover the costs of renovating the country pile given to Harry and Meghan by The Queen. It has now been revealed that one of Her Majesty’s cousins, the 74-year-old Duke of Gloucester, is downsizing from a lavish 21 room mansion within Kensington Palace to the smaller Old Stables building. The taxpayer, of course, has to refit this new home for the Duke and his Danish-born wife, and it is estimated to be costing us £500,000 to do.…

Contemplate who your true allies may be in your fight for equality and dignity and respect.

A poll in The Independent this January found 66% of the population do not feel represented by political parties.

The moral fibre of our establishment is rotten at the core

What strikes me is how skewed our principles have become as a society