Britain | Law and order
London’s Metropolitan Police Service is failing on three fronts
That makes it less, not more, likely that it will change
Editor's note (February 10th 2022): After this article was published, it was announced that Dame Cressida Dick would be standing down as the Metropolitan Police's commissioner.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “What’s going on here, then?”
Britain February 12th 2022
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- Northern Irish devolution collapses—again
- Britain’s cost-of-living squeeze in four charts
- Boris Johnson attempts to get his government back under control
- British regulators have approved a Chinese reactor design
- Unless lawyers are paid better, courts will grind to a halt
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