You Just Never Know

Apologies for hardly posting at all this week. I've just had so much other stuff to do that I haven't had time for it. Hopefully that'll change next week.

In the mean time, here's a racism story for you: A police sergeant has been demoted for bringing "disgrace" on his force after making allegedly racist and sexist comments while on duty. Colleagues from Greater Manchester Police (GMP) reported the 36-year-old officer, who has not been named, after being outraged by the comments he made during a conversation with them in June last year. Naseem Malik, IPCC Commissioner for the North West, said: "The comments made by this officer were of a racist and sexist nature and were totally unacceptable. His actions have brought disgrace upon himself and GMP and it is entirely appropriate that he has been removed from a supervisory role."

As always, I'm suspicious. The comments the officer made are never mentioned. Now, they MAY have been disgraceful and worthy of this punishment (and in my view, they have to be pretty damn disgraceful to be worthy of the public humiliation of a man like this). But then again, knowing the politically correct liberal sensitives of the authorities these days, they may have been totally harmless and this man may have suffered damage to his reputation for no good reason. This is one to keep an eye on.