Metropolitan Liberality

Yet further moral glory has accrued to the Metropolitan Firearms and Headbangers' Club, as yet another rotten apple has pleaded guilty to excessive entrepreneurialism in public office. The police constable stole from the wallet of a man who had collapsed and died in the street: an offence mitigated barely, if at all, by the victim's additional possession of a funny foreign name. A custodial sentence is likely, doubtless taking into account the officer's previous good character and the lack of such famous Metropolitan flourishes as rape, assault and culpable homicide. Presumably those patriots who shriek with righteous rage at every early release and at the luxurious régime in Britain's prisons will be watching with vigilance to ensure that the punitive aspect is not neglected.