Posted in Uncategorized on February 16, 2008 | 31 Comments »
The youngest Gadget is a defender for one of the village teams and I take him whenever I am not on duty. I think it’s important to have this special time together. As I freeze on the touchline, although I am watching and cheering, it’s a good time to think about things.
On Saturday it was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 15, 2008 | 10 Comments »
There seems to be a lot of debate at the moment about “social care” for the elderly, and how the Government is going to afford it. Aside from forcing those silly enough to work for a living and accumulate wealth to sell their house to pay for their own care, I am surprised that Ministers [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2008 | 38 Comments »
“How have we got ourselves into a situation where lager is being sold cheaper than water?”
“Why is the advertising of alcohol products specifically targeted at young people on the most struggling Estates?”
“We can always tweak the ‘confiscation of alcohol legislation’, but we need to be honest and wake up to those who make profits [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 12, 2008 | 59 Comments »
I started this Blog in June 2006. One million hits is a good place to take stock. The first thing I would like to do is apologise to Hazel Blears. I wrongly assumed that things in British policing could not possibly get any worse than they were under her stewardship.
I was wrong. Things are considerably [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 10, 2008 | 61 Comments »
Many years ago, I had a postcard under the clear plastic which covered my desk in the Troop office. The picture was a line drawing of a World War I Army Officer leaning over a map. It said
“The reason that things are not going according to plan, is that there never was a plan”
On a [...]
