Animals
Larry’s Diary, Week One Hundred and Fifty-Eight
Monday Good morning you lot. When I woke up this morning, I had to think hard to work out what day it was. It felt like Sunday with the lack of noise emanating from the [more…]
Metropolitan Police
20th Century
Uncle Fred, Edwardian Metropolitan Policeman
Uncle Fred’s Early Life ‘Uncle Fred’, as we all called him, was, in reality, my maternal grandfather’s uncle, and my great great uncle. He was the only other member of my grandfather’s family I ever [more…]
21st Century
The Stockwell Shooting – A Failure of C3I?*
Operation Kratos In 2001 international terrorist events directed security services to conclude that terrorist events involving suicide bombers, were not only likely but sadly inevitable in any country. Among many other agencies, the Metropolitan Police [more…]
Fiction
The Man Who Played Ross – Chapter 17
Operation Kratos – 22nd July 2005 She was just another face in the hundreds of thousands of the diverse faces in London that morning. She was wearing jeans and a jacket, her Hijab worn loosely, [more…]
Animals
Larry’s Diary, Part Seventy Eight
Monday Another week begins and it’s another frosty morning, so I only nipped out into the garden very briefly before breakfast. Today I read of the leading contenders for the leadership of the Scottishland Labour [more…]
Labour
Winnie The Pooh Gets Pulled Over By The Plods
“Come and sit down,” said Kanga to Piglet, “I can see you’ve had an awful shock – you’re all a-tremble. I’ll make us a cup of tea and you can tell me about it.” “Well,” [more…]
Politics
There Will Be No Water Cannons To Wash Away The Rivers Of Blood
It’s another week and yes yet another mutual masturbation circle of outrage on social media over complete trivia. I speak this time of the confected “shock” that the water cannons originally purchased by Boris in [more…]