adrian monck

Month: August 2007

  • Northern Ireland: now just a police state

    Belfast’s own Peter Barron blogs on the end of British army operations in Northern Ireland after 38 years. Having taken a call from the IRA announcing they were going to blow up Whitehall Place, walked through streets paved with broken glass after having had my windows blown out in the Bishopsgate bomb, and having spent…

  • Off topic: Tim the Pig man

    If you ever wanted a small example of the interaction of national, local and hyperlocal news, ponder the recent discovery of a strain of foot and mouth disease in a beef fattening herd, just down the road from us in Surrey. It could be ten, a hundred, or a thousand miles away. It means little…

  • Stockwell 2: Policing public information

    The IPCC‘s Stockwell 2 report is undoubtedly the best account of the management confusion surrounding the killing of Jean Charles de Menezes. Well, it’s the only one. There is a key problem. The central claim in all police communications was that de Menezes was challenged, refused to comply and was then shot. This, Stockwell 2…

  • Talking politics

    Doing a turn on BBC Radio 4’s Talking Politics this morning with Robin Aitken and David Cox on partiality, impartiality and the BBC.