What Has Gone Wrong With Our Police?

This is an edited version of an article I originally wrote in January 2009. It seems to me to have become highly relevant after what appear to have been excessive actions by the police in London last Saturday, which I believe should be the subject of an urgent independent inquiry. The original can be seen here :

https://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2009/01/the-onward-marc.html

 

'It's not debatable,' they bawled. My chilling encounter with Britain's jack-booted paramilitary police

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