Sir Paul Stephenson, commissioner of the Metropolitan police, is lobbying to make it more difficult for citizens to pursue a complaint against the police through the courts. Here is an account of how the police behave in one West European democracy that should lead you to doubt the wisdom of weakening citizens' rights to hold power to account.
In the 19th century small business folk traded gold and money. And then the
banks took over.
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One Spring Monday in 1852 around thirty gold buyers gathered for the
evening at Mrs Black’s Royal Hotel in Bathurst, which was (and is) just on
the other s...
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