I’m not a massive fan of Christmas, to be honest. Ever since I heard Mr WARREN do his infamous “Bah, Humbug” assembly at school when I was a teenager, I’ve had something resonating in my head. As well as activating anxieties around a general principle of mine – that if something takes longer to plan […]

Following the Mind Media Awards, I was flattered to be asked by journalist Mary O’HARA– herself a Mind Media Award Winner – if she could profile me for the Society Guardian pages. After carefully navigating the whole “police officer talking to the media” thing we met up – on the very afternoon that Lord LEVESON […]

The public debate, if we can call it that, which has followed the utterly tragic events in Newtown, Connecticut has been predictably disappointing. We have had Piers Morgan piling in with pronouncements that people under 25, criminals and anyone with a mental health history should be banned from possessing guns – why don’t we just […]