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The Independent View: In defence of the Police

Comedian David Mitchell wrote an article in The Guardian recently in which he was generally disparaging of the police read it here

After reading the article I said to my wife ‘David Mitchell really doesn’t like the police’ her response was ‘What do you expect? He’s a liberal. They don’t like the police generally’ Is this true? It seems, to a degree, that it is. The police represent authority, discipline and justice. They can appear as the antithesis of the most basic principles of Liberalism: Liberty, equality, freedom and civil rights but my argument is that without the police democracy …

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  • User AvatarChris Keating 19th May - 1:49pm
    @Simon - what bollocks. Slapping a "it was reported" or "allegedly" on the front of an article doesn't void the papers' duty to check the...
  • User AvatarJennie 19th May - 1:46pm
    you know everyone I speak to about pass regulation outside of politics says there should only be one hard and fast rule - corrections should...
  • User AvatarCllr Mike Beckett 19th May - 1:34pm
    The Sun telling lies to sell papers, depressingly enough doesn't strike me as news, rather the boiled down essence of Murdoch's business strategy...
  • User AvatarSimon 19th May - 1:29pm
    The Guardian and Telegraph stories are accurate. They include the words "it was reported". As the picture makes clear, it was indeed reported. Neither newspaper...
  • User AvatarHelen Dudden 19th May - 1:14pm
    @RC, nothing that is extreme I can assure you. If you join a coalition you are part of the Government in power, you mostly will...