I listened very carefully to the Gracious Speech, and I made the assumption that the promise to address the legacy of the past with regard to Northern Ireland refers to a Government commitment to protect veterans from vexatious and repeated prosecutions.
Like everyone who still has children at local schools (me as well) I am worried about four very recent incidents in which children were approached by adults in the Beckenham/Bromley area although thankfully none of them were harmed.
I get the idea of grey-zone warfare. I studied strategy; I realise that we cannot fight the next war as we fought the last war—I get that, too. The real problem is that we are going to have to do the next war in a different way. I get that as well.
We have all heard that Prince Philip served in the Royal Navy in the Second World War, but I want to concentrate on that naval service and particularly his courage.
The right to protest by some must be balanced by the rights of everyone. The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill, which passed its Second Reading in the House of Commons on 16 March is all about this fundamental democratic right. There is nothing in this bill that prohibits protest but ot
I know everyone will be as thrilled I am that finally we have a credible route out of this ghastly lockdown. After this truly dreadful year, every citizen of this country yearns for this to be the lockdown finale.
On 17 April 1984, Woman Police Constable Yvonne Fletcher of the Metropolitan police was fatally wounded by a gunman. He was hiding in the Libyan People’s Bureau, which was in St James’s Square in London.
