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Putting WFH on Probation

WTH! Probation officers WFH? How does that work? AFAIK*, probation officers are supposed to see their ‘clients’ face-to-face. Once convicted of an offence which is not imprisonable or the sentence is a combination of community payback and suspended custodial sentence, criminals are supposed to report to their probation officer at…

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The Fire Service: When Wokeness Equals Danger

The fire service is in the firing line – if you’ll pardon the pun, but very much intended. Between you, me, and the Martians, we’d think their job is to rescue us from danger, especially of the burning kind. Whether we are black, white, man, woman, fat, slim, tall, or…

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Nothing To See Here…

Okay, everybody, calm down. Just take a breath and simmer down. A Black woman has been handcuffed and arrested by the Metropolitan Police, amid distressing scenes in front of her young son. Video taken of this incident almost brought down Twitter (although it probably doesn’t take much these days to…

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Knives in Schools: When Will Lessons be Learned?

In November 2014, 16-year-old schoolboy William Cornick was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing his teacher, Ann Maguire in their Leeds Catholic school. He was sentenced to serve a minimum term of 20 years. William Cornick had a grudge against Mrs Maguire, and he had made it known that he…

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Let Them Eat (Oven) Chips!

You just can’t please some people! You give them free accommodation. You feed them three square meals a day. These people don’t have to work their brains to figure out anything, because they have someone telling them what to do, what time to get up, what time to go to…

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Here We Go Again

I could be wrong about this, but if I have a health condition, I do believe it is my responsibility to take care of myself and not leave that responsibility to others. What do I mean by all this? As we go along, you will see what I mean. A…

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Should Perpetrators of Domestic Abuse go on the Sex Offenders’ Register?

Domestic abuse of any kind is a despicable and insidious evil. This includes behaviour that is controlling, coercive, threatening, degrading and violent which also includes sexual violence. These behaviours are usually carried out by a partner, or an ex-partner. Whilst women can abuse their male partners (Sheree Spencer was recently…

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Come One. Come All?

‘Segregational Appeal’. That’s a new one. Right? This phrase is attracting condemnation, it would appear, throughout all of Canada. And why? It’s all about the ‘Black Out’. Nothing to do with wartime activities, nothing to do with Covid-19, or anything like that. In the last year, two major Canadian theatres…