In each scandal, there is always one or two maverick MPs who were listening and trying to act. Which is probably why they were regarded as maverick. The classic pattern seems to be 1) MP/Minister get… (View Post)

The office of Sheriff is universal, though. As they say, a term as Sheriff can set a man up for life. Two terms, well handled, can set up his family down the generations. (View Post)

The success with which the political system captured the PCCs, and steered them into cosy relationships with the police is worthy of a book. The original idea was to bring in outside supervision of t… (View Post)

Secondary effects. Policing doesn't seem to consider those. I grew up in Oxford. In that period - up to the early 90s - there was the following phenomenon. A certain individual was known by all to be… (View Post)

The devil is, as ever, in the segmentation of the aggregate numbers. IIRC the debt ratios for the lower incomes are pretty horrific. (View Post)