Community service is the only answer to MPs’ expenses cheek

MPs should be forced to do community service to make amends to the taxpayer using whichever items they have pocketed on expenses.

G20: Anarchy in the UK?

Anti-G20 anarchist graffiti spotted in Islington

Did the black cab rapist strike in Hackney too?

Hackney police may have “missed an opportunity” to catch black cab rapist John Worboys in 2004, according to a senior Scotland Yard source.

The modern day good Samaritans

“I thought I might see some vomit, one or two twisted ankles – at worst, a bloody nose from a drunken punch. Little did I know that, by one o’clock, I would be on my knees in the middle of a busy North London road, attending to a man who was critically ill after somebody stamped on his head stamped during a violent brawl.”

Christmas shopping in the police state

“It’s simple: arrest everyone, and you’re bound to catch a few people who’ve done something wrong.”