Forced, and arbitrary, local government reorganisation risks ignoring community wishes.
We give you divorce reform, abortion law in Northern Ireland, citizenship rights for three million Hong Kongers, and the rainbow flag.
How better to follow Jeremy Corbyn’s speech yesterday than by citing a signature Tory policy that shifted wealth to “working people and their families”?
Onward, FREER, the revitalised CPS. The Tory MPs involved in all these will have to take some risks if they’re to get off the groumd.
They have gone either way in successive elections, but their recent results show up electoral trends that helping the Tories.
There is a chronic shortage of skilled construction workers.
He defeated the favourite, Reggie Maudling. And ever since, when offered a choice, the Tories have gone with the less familiar face among the main candidates.
The Establishment persists; that much is true. But the correct response is proper conservative economy policy, not more state intervention.
Camden, Haringey, Lambeth, Wandsworth…. At the age of 50, they now seem natural units and alternatives are hard to imagine.
Peter Walker retired as Deputy Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police in 2003. He now owns SuperSkills, a Construction Training Business in Thirsk. Follow Peter on Twitter. Most of us use Google and other internet search engines without a second's thought. Even our language is now expanded by a new verb – to "Google" something. Today's papers […]
Peter Walker retired as Deputy Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police in 2003. He now owns SuperSkills, a Construction Training Business in Thirsk. Follow Peter on Twitter. This week's crime figures demonstrate once again that not only is the number of crimes recorded by police falling, but that the more resilient Crime Survey of adults in England […]
Peter Walker retired as Deputy Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police in 2003. He now owns SuperSkills, a Construction Training Business in Thirsk. Follow Peter on Twitter. I may be wrong, but I'm probably not alone in thinking that when you've been elected as a Police Commissioner and are facing a budgetary reduction of some […]
Peter Walker retired as Deputy Chief Constable of North Yorkshire Police in 2003. He now owns SuperSkills, a Construction Training Business in Thirsk. Follow Peter on Twitter. Last Friday, I had a long telephone conversation with the mother of a seventeen year old, asking how her son could take up one of the training courses […]
At a time of budget cuts, mounting pressure, and waning deference to authority, officers deserve better than headlines like these.