Cops, open up
IN the social media age, police simply have to be far more open with the Press.
That’s not The Sun saying so, though we agree. It’s the Government’s terrorism tsar Jonathan Hall.
Following the Southport stabbings, the lack of information from cops fuelled internet speculation[/caption]
Spooked by the infamous Leveson witch-hunt into the Press, cops foolishly opted to keep us — and the public — in the dark whenever possible.
The frequent result now is a social media inferno of speculation and often dangerous lies.
After the Southport atrocity, that triggered rioting.
Police, and Keir Starmer too, claimed releasing details could have prejudiced Axel Rudakubana’s trial. It was always nonsense.
He was a remorseless monster who slaughtered three little girls out of pure evil. It is inconceivable his case could ever have collapsed.
And as Mr Hall says in his official report on the horror: “The disinformation on social media, combined with widespread allegations of a cover-up, risked far more prejudice” to the trial.
Near-silence from the state, he adds, “is no longer an option”.
Absolutely right. Will they listen?
Axe eco fiasco
WILL the world wake up to the insane self-harm of ceaseless COP climate summits?
Or are these vast annual jollies simply too attractive for politicians to axe them?
Last year’s was in Azerbaijan, the major oil and gas producer whose president calls fossil fuels a “gift from God” and wants to increase their output.
This year’s host Brazil is bulldozing tens of thousands of acres of precious Amazon rainforest to build an eight-mile freeway so 50,000 delegates can drive more speedily to the conference.
There, this hypocritical assembly will discuss cutting emissions while railing against the destruction of the rainforest which plays a pivotal role in that battle.
Labour still considers this farcical shindig vital — and its edicts holy writ.
But since the world’s major polluters largely ignore them, what purpose does the whole preposterous extravaganza serve?
Sack the sickos
FLASHERS who expose themselves to young girls cannot be politicians.
You’d have thought that was a golden rule in any civilised society.
Yet somehow Sam Gould, the ex-Wes Streeting aide now convicted on two counts of indecency, still seems to believe he has a future in politics.
But he cannot possibly remain a local councillor any more than he can advise the Health Secretary.
This sick oddball has left a 13-year-old victim traumatised. Neither he nor any politician convicted of a sex crime can play a role in running a society whose laws they have so grotesquely violated.
The Government intends to pass an urgent law to oust these perverts automatically if they refuse to stand down.
It cannot come soon enough.
