PC Andrew Harper was a committed young police officer with his career lying ahead of him; a career in which he would have been repeatedly asked to put himself in harm’s way in order to protect the public and enforce law and order. He would have delivered on those...

Like a lot of my fellow countrymen, I am a Type 2 diabetic; indeed, I was diagnosed 20 years ago. I take a very pragmatic view of such things and given I am neither overweight or unfit, I don't feel any personal guilt. As my lovely old mam used to say "there's always...

Listening to the news this morning, I felt my heart sink when the Scottish Government's decision to enforce post-holiday self-isolation on returning travellers was announced. Not necessarily because it's wrong, I'm not qualified to make that call, but simply because...

I am the first to admit that life has been good to me. I have enjoyed two wonderful careers in ICT and worked for and with some fantastic people along the way. I was also lucky enough to find my calling in the first career as a soldier and that doesn't happen too...

I'm not a cynic by nature but when lockdown was first announced I really couldn't see the general public getting behind it. My concern was how hard the police were going to have to work to enforce the situation without the appropriate statutory powers to enforce it. I...

I had heard the word BAME prior to the lockdown and to be completely honest, I thought here we go again with yet another completely unhelpful, divisive and unnecessary description of a part of our society. Well, since lockdown commenced we have witnessed some...

Yet another day where we have to reflect on the brutal, senseless slaughter of innocents. Murdered in cold blood by someone we welcomed into our country and embraced within our multicultural society; why on earth did he come here in the first instance other than to...

People attacking Ambulance crews has always struck me as utterly contemptuous and whilst a significant number of such attacks are driven by alcohol, many are just acts of thuggery committed by scumbags. Alcohol isn’t an excuse for such behaviour and I firmly believe...

I have detested racism all of my life, but to be absolutely clear I mean all racism not just against one race, colour, creed or religion. It has no place in our world and it would certainly be an achievement for mankind if we can all work together to eradicate it once...

From the start of this pandemic I have been dubious of the various statistics being bandied around, both here in UK and more so across the globe. In fairness, I accepted that the focus probably wasn’t on producing Impeccable statistics but on saving lives in an...

I think most people accept that Donald Trump is a buffoon who is simply not fit to hold the office of President of the world’s most powerful nation. Sadly, this is a fact that we can not impact, but must hope that the American people remove him at the next...

I’m sitting in my garden in beautiful sunshine enjoying a nice cold beer and my mind drifts back 38 years to the day. At this time in 1982 we were at war with Argentina and engaged in the liberation of the Falkland Islands, following the illegal invasion by...