Moth in a Spider’s Web

Argus title : Caught in a Web of Blair’s Deceit

Over the years Blair has regularly picked fights with his party to ingratiate himself with the Murdoch press. This time, however, he engaged in a protracted love-in with his audience. It matters not how many were actually Labour Party members. If his intention was to upstage Gordon Brown and show the public the presentational strengths the Labour Party is about to lose, he succeeded.

Demonstrations

Argus Title: We need peace, not power battles

Supt Graham Bartlett, Sussex Police’s new Head of Crime and Operations in Brighton & Hove, has been in post for approximately two months. He oversees all operational policing in the city.

I’ve known Graham for years. When I first met him I was working for a domestic violence charity and he was a talented young Detective Sergeant, on the cusp of promotion to Inspector. He had been brought into Brighton to develop work to combat hate crime.

Graham headed the new Home Office funded Anti-Victimisation Unit in its early days, before serious injuries from a car accident meant he had to leave and undertake more sedentary work.

He was knowledgeable about abuse issues and deeply committed to improving the police’s response to domestic violence. Prior his posting in Brighton he had worked at Police Headquarters with the then Assistant Chief Constable Maria Wallis.

Anti-Semitism

Argus title : Racism stinks just like an infected wound and I can smell it here in Britain

When I was a child we had a family doctor called Dr Flower. He had come to South Africa from Northern Ireland and spoke in a soft Ulster burr. He had a pale kindly face and seemed the gentlest of men.

When I was 14 I asked him what he thought of the IRA. He said softly “They should all be hung”. “What, all of them?” my mother asked, very startled. That was when I realised Dr Flower was an Ulster Protestant of implacable bigotry.