How Dennis Waterman and John Thaw's The Sweeney gave bad coppers a good name
Screen cops once were dull pencil-pushers. Then Regan and Carter kicked the doors in, and TV – and policing itself – would never be the same
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Screen cops once were dull pencil-pushers. Then Regan and Carter kicked the doors in, and TV – and policing itself – would never be the same
The self-described ‘people’s policeman’ backed penal labour camps and proposed that violent criminals be flogged until they begged for mercy
As longtime president of Mount Holyoke College, Mary Woolley helped to transform university education for women in the United States. In a new production of “Bull in a China Shop,” the Performing Arts Department will explore Woolley’s groundbreaking career and her decades-long relationship with Jeannette Marks, chair of Mount Holyoke’s English department.
RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: The tenure of Dick, of whom we hoped better, has been an unmitigated shambles following the disgraceful Bernard Hyphen-Howe years.
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: After five ignominious years as Britain's top police officer, Cressida Dick has dramatically resigned as the Met Commissioner.