Law and Order

Politics: unreality

May 30, 2026 3:31 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

The ultimate purpose of this blog is to make sense of things. Even if I had no readers at all,... View Article

Law and order: antisemitism

May 3, 2026 2:42 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

All of a sudden, three strands of media interest have emerged, each with their distinct characteristics but all of them... View Article

Law and Order: linkage

January 31, 2026 3:20 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

I’ve written a few times about the illicit tobacco trade, noting the wholly inadequate enforcement effort devoted to closing down... View Article

Environment: waste crime

December 14, 2025 3:46 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

The Sunday Times has published a report by Samuel Lovett on the fly-tipping plague which has reached epidemic proportions, blighting... View Article

Policing: reform resuscitated

December 10, 2025 4:00 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

No sooner have we begun to digest Lammy’s jury proposal, set out without a mandate and therefore lacking democratic legitimacy,... View Article

Law and order: constitutional vandalism

December 4, 2025 3:03 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Having left it a full day before commenting on Lammy’s jury proposals, I expected to see the legacy media awash... View Article

Politics: budget hype

November 26, 2025 2:55 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

I won’t be the first to observe how different things are. It used to be the case that budget day,... View Article

Law and Order: Operation Machinize 2

November 12, 2025 3:27 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

The BBC story seems to be scaling down a little bit, although we’ll have to wait until Friday to see... View Article

Law and order: missing a problem

November 6, 2025 2:45 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

It’s been a bad week for the BBC. First, it got caught out having doctored one of Trump’s speeches and,... View Article

Law and Order: sanitised outrage

November 5, 2025 2:55 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Despite the high-profile series of stabbings and murders, the left is falling over itself to tell us that things are... View Article

Law and Order: the new normal?

November 2, 2025 1:49 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

My snapshot of England published yesterday could hardly have anticipated the events of the evening when an InterCity train on... View Article

Law and Order: murder and mayhem

November 1, 2025 3:21 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

At the time of writing, with the hunt still in progress, the BBC was reporting that a teenage girl had... View Article

Law and order: Rotherham syndrome?

July 5, 2025 1:53 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Describing a raid on a shop in Hull selling illicit tobacco, the BBC tells us that this is now “a... View Article

Law and Order: bigger than it looks

June 17, 2025 2:36 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

There is very little new in Baroness Casey’s report – officially entitled the National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation... View Article

Policing: running scared

May 28, 2025 2:54 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

One aspect of the Liverpool people-crunching episode which has set social media on fire is the alacrity with which the... View Article

Politics: a glimmer of hope

April 2, 2025 2:46 am Published by Richard North Post a Comment

Yesterday, for the first time in a very long time, I was able to watch an individual MP in action... View Article