Police farce
CAN anyone still doubt that policing is broken?
Time and again innocent people are arrested by halfwitted coppers over some non-offence, locked up for hours then set free without charge after their life has been cruelly upended.
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All while REAL criminals — like the thieving plankton still looting Greggs — saunter away scot-free.
The message of Netflix’s fictional drama Adolescence, which the Left considers mandatory viewing, is that parents should limit kids’ screen time.
History teacher Vanessa Brown did just that with her iPad-fixated girls and got banged up for seven hours for “theft”.
Her treatment was both repugnant and ludicrous.
Every officer involved should be disciplined.
But it is just part of an epidemic of chronic ineptitude.
Last month six plod arrested a couple for criticising their daughter’s school on WhatsApp.
Newspaper columnist Allison Pearson was grilled by cops over a tweet sent and deleted a year earlier.
Police chiefs ignore real villains and harass ordinary people for “non-crime hate”.
Meanwhile their forces “boost diversity” reportedly by barring white recruits or, like Thames Valley, launching “equity training” at which cops must atone for their “white privilege”.
Forces seem overrun by feeble liberal-left graduates indoctrinated at university into extremes of wokery and blind to their actual function: To protect the law-abiding from genuinely bad people.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper must urgently turn this disaster round.
Cod help him
IN this volatile world, security co-operation should be paramount in EU leaders’ minds.
The saner ones accept that Britain is a vital defence partner.
President Macron is far more concerned about fish.
He is still blocking a security pact unless we let his trawlers catch more of it in UK waters.
He also wants us to defy the Brexit vote to restart free-movement for young people.
No wonder he is being ridiculed by EU foreign affairs chief Kaja Kallas.
Does Macron take France’s defence seriously?
If Russia conquers Ukraine and sets its sights on the rest of Europe, will he still carp on about herring?
Growth spurt
AT last, some decent economic growth we can briefly celebrate.
February’s healthy 0.5 per cent rise is a surprise, but hugely welcome.
That said, it is the first proper uptick under Labour — and mainly fuelled by an exports rush to avoid the US tariffs Donald Trump had long threatened.
Now his ten per cent tax is in place.
And that, plus Labour’s self-harming jobs tax, are both likely to crush growth.
Cooler Labour heads are wary of gloating over one positive monthly figure.
