Elected Police Commissioners

In the UK we are to have Elected Police Commissioners who will have powers to hire and fire Chief Constables! Candidates can (presumably will?) seek election on party political platforms! Knowledgeable experienced police officers are to be controlled by ignorant and ill informed politicians. As if the dead hand of political parties had not spread far enough we are now going to hand control of yet another key service to these unrepresentative minorities. Who is supposed to benefit from this nonsense?

The Lockerbie Bomber?

Is he?
Maybe and Maybe not. He was convicted yet doubts remain and even some of the victims families seem to believe he is innocent.
And yet we have the unedifying spectacle of  ill informed politicians astride the Atlantic condemning equally ill informed politicians in Scotland for having released him on compassionate grounds.
What is clear is that the man is terminally ill and where he is is largely irrelevant.
One day we may learn the truth - or maybe not!
In contrast it must be remembered that we do know who brought down the Iranian airliner!