Sorry but these are exactly the sorts of questions that need asking.
But 9 times out of 10 he has a valid point.
Is this all it takes to gain political kudos.
Beating up on a relatively junior Tory minister over spending and job cuts throughout the police force, less than 48 hours after the same police force performed heroically.
That has to be the very definition of stealing sweets from a baby..
Not everyone's cup of tea and like all of us flawed in some ways, but at times like these a superb broadcaster, who certainly won't duck an issue, however contentious or controversial.
not really, cheap, topical crowd pleaser. would 5, 10, 15000 more armed police make a difference? do you want to have armed police on every street? these are the sort of questions that need asking, and when we do, generally we answer probably not and no.
fact is the current threats need intelligence lead policing/security, which has been increasing. ideals about having 20k more police "out in the community" isnt going to stop a couple of chaps in their front room plan their atrocity. we need to separate regular policing from dealing with terrorist threats.
Not everyone's cup of tea and like all of us flawed in some ways, but at times like these a superb broadcaster, who certainly won't duck an issue, however contentious or controversial.
You've gone down in my estimations.
Can you please remind yourself of his professional history before lazily lobbing in the tired old cliché "like all of us flawed"?
Thanks.
Published fake pictures of British soldiers urinating on POWs too.
Absolute cock of the highest order.
Yeah i concur with both sides on this. He is a complete tool of the highest order, who has done some awful things in his career, but whose bluster, arrogance and sense of righteousness occasionally hits upon a valid target and gets a decent result.
This is true, however 10 out of 10 times he's a **** with it.