The Wrong Arm Of The Law

This week: the forgotten monorails of the Midlands, how big is Chile exactly, and the women of London have, unfortunately, met the Met.

Some things I am worrying about this week

What the hell the Metropolitan Police think they are playing at.

I’d naively always assumed that the old line that the Met could turn a Women’s Institute bake sale into a riot was a joke. But on Saturday, they turned up in force at a vigil for a dead woman on Clapham Common. Friends on the scene report that the pr…