A Meeting of Mimes

The life of a police blogger can be a double-edged sword.

On the one hand, you get to communicate with fellow-minded and abusive readers the world over, publish all kinds of crap you thought you could never say out loud, earn hard cash from said publications, and nudge on the beginnings of political change in this country. On the other hand, what's any of it for if you can't claim the credit?


I am excited, therefore, to announce that in about a month's time I will be chinning back some beers (or delicately sipping at some mulled wine, depending on how things go), with none other than the esteemed Inspector Gadget.

I suspect that Gadget isn't exactly like me. He's a lot older, for a start. And A LOT maler. He's got a somewhat bigger vocabulary, probably a much bigger car, and has far more people calling him "sir" every day.

But we do have something in common. We both spend our day fuming about the decay of commonsense, the sad waste of human potential, the even sadder waste of public money, and the political hypocrisy that drives it all. We get our hands dirty typing it furiously into our blogs, sharing it with the world, by turns angering or entertaining our readers and ourselves. We can do this with some authority, because by night, we are both out on the streets getting our hands even dirtier dealing with the reality of it.

We will be posting about the meeting after we've had it. And encouraging your feedback. This may be the start of a beautiful friendship.
















It's not about changing the world. To be honest, it's mostly about cracking a few jokes at the expense of reactionaries and bureaucrats. It's about showing you, the reader, what the police really do. WHY we do what we do and HOW. The rest is up to you.






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