Not in the cricket season. Play often goes on till 6pm. Can we say half seven and exempt day/night matches? (View Post)

Agree with all of that. In my view it’s also very important to flag that the police do have, and should use, such discretion. Indeed that’s what we pay the senior ranks for, and that’s why the releva… (View Post)

That’s not that case at all. It’s the very opposite of the approach we take to our police and criminal justice system. (View Post)

Nothing. We’d have been focused on whether Alabama would join the USA later that year and who would be elected first governor. (View Post)

And it is possible to take the view that the police could and should have engaged, defused, and negotiated. We have a tradition in this country of policing by consent and police discretion allowing f… (View Post)