Dominic Lawson: If we are all under suspicion, then we are all threatened - Dominic Lawson, Commentators - The Independent

Look... thugs are thugs, even if they have that cute little 'bobby' suit. But, hey... Britain is giving up its freedoms every day. Safety at all costs is simply tyranny in a different suit.

Dominic Lawson: If we are all under suspicion, then we are all threatened - Dominic Lawson, Commentators - The Independent:

"That, however, is not the view of the constabulary, which increasingly sees – or pretends to see – the most innocent acts as pregnant with potential criminality. I realise this attitude is inevitable in an organisation that daily encounters the bleakest aspects of human character, but traditionally the British police have managed this moral challenge without descending into obvious madness. Yet it was a peculiarly modern form of bureaucratic insanity, surely, which compelled the Norfolk Police officers in charge of this annual Christmas spectacle to confiscate the cameras of all the well-wishers lined up outside Sandringham church on Christmas Day."