DCT AUDIO PODCAST - audioboom.com/posts/877521... This is sensitive stuff, so be careful. @dctaudio.bsky.social, @iofiv.bsky.social and I had a chat about a topic which really bothers each of us. Dave's done a great job editing out the waffle and Richard's always worth listening to.

A few hours after Reform tabled the opposition in the council elections I posted that it would be a good time to join a union if you work for a council. Go on. First thing Tuesday morning!

Crikey!

Hello. Just dropping back in to let people know that I am standing for Labour in the Ribble Valley South West Council Elections.

My regular warning. There is no such thing as a private WhatsApp group.

Done. Thank you Copenhagen!

It remains my gift to see the clouds scudding towards any silver lining.

61 ✅

If not Liz Truss then who?

If you believe that Facebook, Twitter, even BlueSky are primarily about some noble public purposes or even that they should be, you are stuck in wish based beliefs.

When Facebook puts a choke on fact checking will anybody notice?

Professor Alexis Jay, who led a 7-year review of sexual abuse which reported in 2022, says starting a new inquiry would delay any implementation of her own recommendations:

Me? I investigated "grooming" and convicted a child rapist or "boyfriend" as the victim called him. FWIW if you can't effectively safeguard the victims, your investigations and interventions are built on sand.That child safeguarding is often very difficult but almost always doable. That is all.

What new insights & lessons would we get from a national inquiry into organised sexual offending against children? Classic more heat than light stuff from Elon & Kemi.

Is there perhaps any UK constitutional law expert that could stage an educational intervention with Mr. Musk?

Happy New Year. Now where are those thistles.

Who should be trusted with the purchasing and implementation of Police IT systems? The records of those who have had a go before were not the stuff to inspire confidence.

Slept 14 hours last night. The lengths I will go to for brunch.

I do love it that BlueSky has a lot of supportive public library content. Anyway, thats where I am going after breakfast, to the library.

Happy Christmas, and here is a Christmas story And if you want to chat about it, replies are open Gods rest you merry, merry followers

Happy Christmas folks.

NEW BLOG - "Wrapping It Up" A few thoughts on the year and what remains to be done in researching policing and mental health. mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com/2024/12/24/w...

You will get money out of politics when you get politics out of money - never

In case you somehow missed it, big money has been moving in our national level politics for the longest time and there is no good way of stopping it.

Have opened the Christmas port early. This will be a bit messy.

Get a library card even if you're not planning to use it. It impacts their funding.

Saturday is my library volunteer day.

"Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" The story of a 40 year book-quest and of its remarkable ending And about goblins and Christmas; the perils of ChatGPT; and the real value of librarians and so on Substack emptycity.substack.com/p/twelfth-ni... Personal blog davidallengreen.com/2024/12/twel...

NEW BLOG - “AWOL or No Longer?” Most patients who absent themselves from some sections of the Mental Health Act do not remain “AWOL” indefinitely. This has implications — mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/a...

NEW Govt appears to have listened to Lady Chief Justice, Baroness Carr (and also Sir Brian Leveson).. It's adding 2,000 more court sitting days this year to help tackle record Crown Court backlog.. It'll help ...but many more days are needed, plus radical reform @mojgovuk.bsky.social

I srill find myself looking at my old Twitter feed every few days. Still comparatively shit Still not giving it any more free content.

She was there before Elvis, Little Richard or Johnny Cash swiveled their hips and strummed their guitars. If you've never heard Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of rock 'n' roll, you should.

Would £100m be enough for an established minor party to buy itself into at least a share of power in a UK general election? I think the answer is yes. Practically, what do we do with that?

Say no to straight bananas, Emulsified High Fat Offal Tubes and mince pie bans!

No surrender to rational economic policy decisions that will be in our country's best interests.

The Brexit that might be "betrayed" is not the Brexit that you fondly imagined.

I see You "The Spectacle"

Bloot? Nah, it will always be bleet for me.

Out out with the fabulous Janet Edwards.

We are back from our sleeping cave...

Saturday morning at the library.

Police reform, too many horses, not enough riders.

As I have said frequently before, policing best practice for all and bigger, stronger street based neighbourhood policing teams will be expensive particularly after 10 years that have seen the "efficiency lemon squeezed dry. Rebuilding policing to do it all well will cost. It will cost a lot

"Forty per cent of men under the age of twenty five in prison today were in care. For me they have already been failed by society." Prison reform campaigner, Matthew Torbitt, explains why early Government intervention could prevent imprisonment and save money. #Newsnight

NEW BLOG - "Mental Health Response Vehicles" One year on from introducing MHRVs, one ambulance service has helped over 7,200 people but there are probably some things we should discuss. mentalhealthcop.wordpress.com/2024/12/11/m...

We are back because there are Policing things to talk about.

Back

@iofiv.bsky.social together with another police colleague and me were involved in a podcast called the Thin Blue Mind discussing all things policing. Now it’s just the two of us and we have decided to bring it back. It’s called 33 Minutes. #police #podcast #cops 💥COMING SOON💥

Some good news from Assad’s fall. Some of the five million Syrian refugees in Türkiye, Lebanon and Jordan should soon be able to return home. And also many of the 700,000 refugees in Germany and Austria which could ease pressure from the Far Right in advance of forthcoming elections.