This just turned up on my gmail page. I hope I have readers out there who might want to find out more! Deadline 31st May

This is Russia…lose your car, go to the police, get laughed at, go to a website supposed to be run by thieves, get scammed. There was a similar website for stolen property in the UK, but I dont know what happened to it. The media never followed up the story…

Johann Hari continues a series of think pieces challenging orthodoxy.

This is one of those events that make me uncomfortable. Have to see what pans out, but the great fear always was that these “terrorism” powers would be used against dissidents and on behalf of industrialists/private enterprise. Looks awfully like that in this case, but let’s see who gets brought to court and for what. … WERE POLICE SPIES BEHIND MASS ARREST OF ACTIVISTS?

Figures obtained by Guardian under Freedom of Information Act. Argument appears to be that more children are being taken into care and more are going missing from care. Not sure that the argument hangs together, but 957 “picked up by local authorities”, 400 from Afghanistan and 200 from Africa, in the last 8 months of … CHILD TRAFFICKING INTO BRITAIN ACCELERATING

To attack al Shabab’s camps in Southern Somalia or not to attack?

Good old fashioned news from the Irish Times. No speculation, just the facts.

This from the New York Times.

Rod Liddle, normally a Jeremy Clarkson soundalike has a bash at the Met. What interests me is this adoption of the left liberal clothing by commentators who are normally “vox populi”. The comments are reasonably fair, and suddenly Blair Peach is a martyr too, even though back then the Rod Liddles were totally with the … ‘ELLO, ‘ELLO, ‘ELLO. PC PORKIEPIE IS ON THE CASE AGAIN

There have been coordinated raids on properties across the North of England and a number of arrests. Bob Quick, senior police officer in charge of counter-terrorism was photographed getting out of a car with a document visible giving details of the raids. He has now resigned, but the story goes off at a number of … POLICE CHIEF QUITS OVER BLUNDER