The current wave of shoplifting is especially frightening. It is not an invented panic. And others close to me have witnessed it in recent days. The most important thing is that even the dumbest criminal has now realized that there is no real law in this country.
The problem has many causes. I don’t think real suffering is one of them. The old morality of this country has collapsed.
In the miserable 1930s, when millions lived in such deprivation that modern young people would gasp at the sight, theft of any kind was extremely rare. At the same time, the police have almost completely disappeared, so the fear of being discovered has diminished. The prosecution and the courts have played their role, making it clear that they are not interested in punishment. And today many people have realized this.
Hence the man picked up piles of fresh meat from an urban supermarket and headed straight for the exit, as witnessed the other day by a woman I know well. She was shocked and shouted: ‘That’s stealing!’ He turned and smiled at her, before slowly leaving her. She feared nothing.
Last week, the cooperative complained that many of its stores had been abandoned by the police (pictured: cooperative store attacked by thieves).
Thieves attacking Co-op supermarket pictured as chain accuses police of giving them ‘freedom to loot’
In recent weeks, two obvious thieves have used me as cover in Marks & Spencer. The thieves suddenly stood beside me as I left the store with my legal purchases. The alarms go off, but store staff can’t be sure who set them off. By the time they’ve figured it out, it’s too late, even assuming they could have done much anyway.
But this is nothing. The cooperative complained last week that many of its stores had been abandoned by police. He says the situation has gotten so bad that he may have to close stores in some areas. Matt Hood, managing director of Co-op Food, explained how serious the situation has become: ‘I have seen some horrific incidents of brazen and violent robberies in our stores, where my colleagues have felt frightened and threatened.
“Too often, the military fails to respond to the desperate calls from our store teams, and criminals operate in communities without fear of consequences.” Store workers who try to intervene are threatened with screwdrivers or knives. Gangs break down doors.
Well, we know what will happen. Stores will hide expensive products behind counters, steel bars will appear on windows, the number of people allowed in stores will be limited, staff will take refuge behind armored screens, everything will become more expensive. Life will become grim and unpleasant in a way that our most disadvantaged areas have known for years. But do you think it will all end there?
This is a warning. Real anarchy is not far away.
Where people do not refrain from and are not ashamed of blatant dishonesty, and where the police are a fond memory, who and what will be safe?
However, until our wealthy elite feels threatened, nothing will be done.
If we had a political party that believed in enforcing the law, punishing crime, and making the police do their real job, it would sweep the country. Unfortunately, we have no such match.
How surprising it is that, when we do so little about actual crime, we are much more willing to jail people without adequate evidence. The courage and principles of Andrew Malkinson, who endured 17 miserable years in prison before falsely confessing to a crime he did not commit, is a challenge to every police officer, every prosecutor and every judge.
All of these people have a strong moral duty to prevent and stop judicial errors. However, in the case of Mr Malkinson, wrongly accused of dirty rape based on weak and tainted evidence, what did they do?
In my opinion, the trial should have been stopped before it started. I have long said that the increasing cowardice of our criminal justice system makes us all less free. His own weakness makes him look for easy victories and he cares less about the basic rules about the presumption of innocence.
The courage and principles of Andrew Malkinson (pictured), who endured 17 miserable years in prison before falsely confessing to a crime he did not commit, is a challenge to every police officer, every prosecutor and every judge.
Did the fear of homophobia protect a murderer?
Without a doubt, the best thing on television for a long time has been The Sixth Commandment, the BBC’s dramatization of the terrible murder of retired professor Peter Farquhar at the hands of the manipulator and fraud Benjamin Field. There’s the usual silly press portrayal, but I guess we’ll just have to live with that. But the evil of Field’s actions makes the viewer’s blood boil. How did he almost get away with it? It was Field’s sinister assault on Farquhar’s neighbour, Ann Moore-Martin (he was 26, she was 83), that finally caused his niece to raise the alarm and alert the police.
The age difference in the relationship was obviously suspicious.
But so it was during his invasion of Peter Farquhar’s life, during which the two men shared a bed and underwent an “accountability” ceremony.
Before Field came into his life, Farquhar had been a repressed homosexual. Could it be that some witnesses feared being accused of “homophobia”, one of the greatest sins of the modern era, and thus squashed their suspicions?
SINISTER: Ben Field (Eanna Hardwicke) with Ann Moore-Martin (Anne Reid) in The Sixth Commandment
Did Nigel Farage really win a great victory over the forces of the Cultural Revolution? I do not think. The bank that tried to cancel him had to be forced, almost by force, to admit that he had done something wrong. Those who ultimately resigned clearly had no real belief that they had done anything wrong. Much of the left-wing media and the Labor Party still think Farage is exaggerating or protesting too much. Here is the truth. Most institutions, companies, media, educational establishments, churches, etc. Britons are now in the grip of a harsh and intolerant left-wing dogma. We are in the twilight of freedom of expression.
Amol Quiz Is More of a Challenge Than Ever
I tried the new redesigned University Challenge and I’m surprised anyone still watches it.
I tried the new redesigned University Challenge and I’m surprised anyone still watches it.
Most people could never hope to answer the incessant questions about science and mathematics, which have nothing to do with general knowledge. Its relentless political correctness on everything from art to dates is tedious. And then there is the new president, Amol Rajan.
Mr. Rajan is a nice guy and a good speaker, but he doesn’t seem to know the answers or, in some cases, fully understand the questions he’s asking.
For anyone of my generation, there’s something very strange about the chair of a high-stakes quiz saying “Haitch.”
I know this has become quite common now and I know that soft-spoken people, like me, should stay out of this sort of thing, but teachers in the 50s considered this pronunciation to be some kind of crime and relentlessly discouraged it. . He now he’s going wild.