Blog posts tagged "police"

July 5, 2010 9:00 am 16 Comments

I spent Sunday in the Solent on a boat sailed by my cousin Peter. A good wind in our sails, choppy seas, and glorious unbroken sunshine as we sped past the glistening white Needles. There was hardly another  boat in sight. I wondered why, and suddenly remembered the Men’s Final at Wimbledon was on. Must [...]

June 25, 2009 4:03 pm 29 Comments

Along a reasonably well-heeled street in the Camden area of north London, my attention is first drawn to an argument between a young man and a young woman on my left. And then, 50 yards later, I suddenly see a man in his 20s bashing a much younger woman’s face into the bonnet of a [...]