Now the EU is wasting your money on propaganda for suicide bombers. Slash its...
JAMES SLACK: There is an irresistible case not just for going after just one leg of the cash-devouring EU cow. An axe should be taken to the entire beast.
View ArticleFormer Labour ministers are queuing up for police chief jobs. Does it have...
JAMES SLACK: Quite a few of the candidates are a blast from Labour’s past – not least John Prescott, who wants to take charge of running the police in Humberside.
View ArticleAnother opportunity to reform the European Court of Human Rights has gone...
JAMES SLACK: Britain's newly-vacant seat at Strasbourg is going to Paul Mahoney, a lifelong Eurocrat who has never been a judge in Britain.
View ArticleHeading down the dairy aisle to find a policeman is no way to report a crime
JAMES SLACK: So, soon enough, the best place to find a police officer will be at your local Tesco, hanging around somewhere between the cheese and fish counters.
View ArticleHouse of Lords reform: Nick Clegg has a cheek to compare himself to Churchill
JAMES SLACK: To listen to Nick Clegg lecturing a packed House of Commons this afternoon, you’d think he was the towering political figure of our times.
View ArticleAbu Hamza's departure: An Olympic dream that has already died
JAMES SLACK: I had a dream. It was that - smack-bang in the middle of the Games the nation would pause from enjoying the sport to watch a fanatic with hooks for hands being loaded on to a plane.
View ArticleThe ludicrous right to claim benefits and enjoy a good standard of living for...
JAMES SLACK: The panel David Cameron established immediately after the election to examine the case for scrapping Labour's hated Human Rights Act has sprung into life elsewhere
View ArticlePulling the plug on Springsteen and McCartney was the ultimate killjoy act -...
JAMES SLACK: Most countries would kill to have two of the world's biggest stars performing to 80,000 people. Instead, bureaucrats ruined the moment and the internet labelled us a nation of killjoys.
View ArticleYes, the number of full-time police has fallen but all credit to those...
JAMES SLACK: There is much noise over the news that the number of full-time police has fallen to its lowest level in nine years.
View ArticleCait Reilly work experience case: It is not cruel to help people off benefits...
JAMES SLACK: Cast your mind back to February, and the incredible furore over the government’s policy of asking benefit claimants to take part in work experience schemes.
View ArticleNick Clegg's childish tantrum is not only embarrassing, it's based on utter...
JAMES SLACK: Have you ever witnessed a toddler having a tantrum in the middle of a busy park or shopping centre? Not just a bit of shouting. The proper foot-stomping meltdown that all parents dread?...
View ArticleFollowing Team GB's success, none of Britain¿s perennially under-achieving...
JAMES SLACK: Certainly, it’s going to be quite a contest for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year. What is equally certain, however, is who won’t be making the shortlist.
View ArticleElected police commissioners were Cameron's big idea for law and order - but...
JAMES SLACK: If ministers can't interest the public in police commissioners, we will wake up in November to a country gripped even tighter by our uninspiring political class.
View ArticleCut EU funding to lower the cost of train fares? Don't even think it on the BBC
JAMES SLACK: The BBC is in trouble with the Tory party again. Iain Duncan Smith is angry that though last week's employment figures were far better than expected, the Beeb sought out a cloud to the...
View ArticleThis Julian Assange spectacle is making a mockery of the police and wasting...
JAMES SLACK: First, we gave the world the Olympics. Now we're providing a second spectacle that's got a global audience on the edge of their sofas: the Julian Assange Circus.
View ArticleCan't pass the test for MI5? Never fear, there's a spying job for you at your...
JAMES SLACK: Watched the Bond films at least twice? Own the Spooks box set but can't get a job in surveillance? Just pop down to your local council and ask to work in the parks department.
View ArticleCabinet reshuffle: Does Dave no longer care what Nick thinks? We can but hope
JAMES SLACK: Dave’s first major Cabinet makeover could have been worse. The two Cabinet ministers pursuing a determinedly Tory agenda – IDS and Michael Gove – stay in post to finish the job.
View ArticleMr Grieve simply will not stand up to the bullies of Strasbourg
JAMES SLACK: The Attorney General will retreat into the lawyerly position that nothing is more important than respecting the ‘rule of law’
View ArticleThe police union that turned into a wounded animal
Many believe it is the Fed’s loss of hold over the Home Office that led some Fed members to behave as they did during the Mitchell farrago.
View ArticleAn accident waiting to happen and a political class in paralysis
JAMES SLACK: Brussels is not going to fling us out. The other countries have too much to lose — not least the billions we pour into the EU’s coffers every year. Mr Cameron must call the EU’s bluff.
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