'Suella Braverman made a series of infantile headline-grabbing speeches saying that what Britain needs is 'more PCs, not PC'.' Our political class of clowns makes reform of the Met impossible, says Patrick Cockburn
. This word has somehow become a code for ministers to underscore that they are not going to do anything too radical to the Met. The Home Secretary Suella Braverman made a series of infantile headline-grabbing speeches saying that what Britain needs is “more PCs, not PC” – as if political correctness was at the heart of the Met’s troubles.
Yet the Met is particularly worth studying because the process of institutional decay may have gone further there than elsewhere. Also, much is known about its inner workings thanks to past scandals sparking numerous reports of which the latest is the Casey Review.media coverage is dominated by eye-catching revelations
Criticism and scandal is routinely met with a show of fake activism, one officer saying that “the goal is always about perception, optics, and being seen to be doing something… There is an illusion of impact but nothing is changing.” The decline of the Met into a messy version of American police culture is ongoing. Braverman evidently sees no problem in this process since her rhetorical flings mostly come straight out of the playbook of the Republican Party in the US with its unswerving support for militarised policing.
Still no convincing explanation identifying who blew up the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline in the Baltic last September. American and European media continue to show restraint in investigating the bombing.
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