Nothing quite like #lambing season. If the sight of lambs brightens your day @hayleyhammy is worth a follow and has some great shots of #HebrideanSheep . 🐏🐑

I’m from Wembley & helped to set up Michaela Community School as Chairman of Governors for the first 4 years.

We faced many attacks & battles back then & Katharine Birbalsingh has fought hard against every single one.

Let this victory be a turning point for the country. 1/3

“It’s not a glitch that you get sex offenders let in the third time around. It’s how the system is meant to work” - an important and damning read from Sam Ashworth-Hayes on the state of our immigration system telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/04/1…

My thoughts are with the victims, their families, and the brave officer who ran towards danger in Sydney. This (like so many other incidents) should serve as a wake-up call to those in the UK who still believe an unarmed model of policing is remotely fit for purpose.

Hark, the lesser-spotted Siren Songbird of #Oxfordshire . Legend has it that during the courtship dance, they sometimes reveal their exquisite 'Battenberg' plumage...🚨🐦 twitter.com/ThamesVP/statu…

I would expect arrests & charges to follow. This is not democracy in action or how to achieve change in a civilised and democratic society.

Concerning that there seems to be a total black-out from @MetPoliceUK and local politicians in relation to #Southall . Where is the condemnation? Where is the commitment to apprehend those involved? Where is the support for the frontline? Louisa Rolfe Ealing Police Virendra Sharma MP

Thoughts with the men and women on the frontline in #Southall doing their best to restore order. The truth is that they are poorly equipped for the task they face and lack confidence in the institutions that will repeatedly pore over their every act in unforgiving microscopic…

I had the great privilege of co-authoring an award-winning report #ControlOrderHope on turning our prisons around with @notthatbigian. Look forward to reading his latest unvarnished contribution on the most undervalued public utility that helps keep us safe: our prisons.

Just another consequence of successive Chancellors failing to adequately resource the fight for public safety - aided and abetted by the luxury belief that policing and prison are unnecessary, unproductive and unpalatable uses of public money.

Campaigners, activists and their political supporters are always quick to attack the use of prison to hold suspects prior to trial. They shall all be quiet today.

We need:

👮Confident and proactive police officers (like these).
🎯Stop and search to take weapons off the street.
📢Exemplary sentencing to send a clear message.

More than that, we need politicians and police chiefs to want these things and to support our crimefighters to make…

My take on the latest sccop from Steven Edginton for GB News on Home Office staff being told to consider three diversity initiatives every day. gbnews.com/membership/hom…

Important findings from Free The Free Speech Union on the views of those put through EDI training:

▶️62% have had to conceal what they really think about the training
▶️45% said their EDI training conflicted with their values
▶️36% have witnessed staff be penalised for challenging EDI…

Great to join Nick Ferrari on LBC this morning to discuss crime in London, and some of the indicators that point to whether a force is focused on crime and the frontline are supported. For example, stop and search🔻, arrests🔻and charges🔻 are not good signs.

Hearing that it is 'harder than ever' to get the detention of under 18s authorised in custody. What could have been dealt with (dare I say) 'promptly and effectively' is now taking forever. It won't cut crime, keep London's children safe, or help their parents sleep at night...

Q. Why do some criminal gangs hide knives instead of carrying knives?
A. Because they fear #StopAndSearch (which the grievance industry claim doesn't work)

You want an example of institutional bigotry? Here it is. Professional bourgeois contextualisers caring more about their woke points on stop and search than the bereaved parents of children murdered by children in London.
standard.co.uk/news/crime/met…

The Leicestershire Youth Justice team might be 'honoured' - but perhaps their guest and the keeper of this Lamborghini might ensure he properly displays a number plate and lets DVLA know about the car's apparent colour change...

The inevitable consequence of police leaders failing to support and encourage police officers to use #stopandsearch , and an accountability framework that disincentivises this discretionary, but vitally important, police work. cc Martin Bentham standard.co.uk/news/crime/met…