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By Colin Cramphorn
Colin Cramphorn is the Association of Chief Police Officers’ portfolio holder for Constitutional Affairs and the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire.
QUIETLY, and without serious debate, a revolution is taking place around the future of policing in England and Wales.
While one [...]
First email bulletin - if you haven’t signed up over there, please do.
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Hi everyone,
First of all, we’d like to say thank you for signing up, and welcome to the Save Parliament campaign!
This is the first email bulletin we’ve sent out. We’ll be sending more as things happen, so you can expect to be contacted [...]
Thank you for writing to David Cameron - I’m replying on his behalf. I’m so sorry for the long delay in my reply, as I am sure you can appreciate there has been a massive increase in the volume of correspondence coming into the office since David Cameron took over as leader.
The Government claims [...]
Regular readers will know that this blog is supposedly a blog about our family life and occasional foray into home education. Previous political posts have been few and far between, but this week, I just don’t seem to be able to drop the subject.
I was typing a long and fascinating response to comments below [...]
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Power to the people?
The present government is in power thanks to the votes of little more than a fifth of the electorate. And think of the authority and intrusion of a modern British government.
This is not a few elderly clerks pushing pens in Whitehall to send dispatches to Hanover. This [...]
The Observer | Comment | Henry Porter: How we move ever closer to becoming a totalitarian state
What I saw in Committee A was the triumph of Tony Blair’s modernity over liberty.
Read it and weep. Then dry your eyes and do something about it. Write to your mp, registering your displeasure. Blog in [...]
On Channel 4 now.
You can’t protest in Parliament Square, near the Cenotaph, without police permission. See the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act 2005. So you can get a criminal record for reading out the names of the dead from the Iraq war, mark 2.
Cimran Khan is (probably) on a database somewhere for [...]