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Robert Baldwin Robertson's avatar

If he had been white there would have been no fuss and no Judicial Inquiry !

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Iain Macwhirter's avatar

Sadly, I think you’re right. And the PC he assaulted, 5ft tall Nicole Short, would have been a feminist hero.

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William Muir's avatar

Actually the inquiry's web site reports its costs, up to 31 December 2024, as £23,765,467.

And counting! Astonishing.

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Iain Macwhirter's avatar

Yes it keeps going up and up like all these inquiries. Well it pays lots of private school fees. And of course the whole thing is rather pointless because Police Scotland have effectively admitted fault.

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John Kirk's avatar

What a disturbing story and I vaguely recall hearing about it at the time. But in the maelstrom of news much of it similar news I had forgotten.

The ever bigger questions are: (1) how long before there really is a financial and economic disaster, or are we in the middle of it snd it takes some time? And (2) what is it doing to us all to have an incessant series of events and news like this? And perhaps (3) can democracy survive and should it?

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