Police watchdog considers whether ‘race or religion’ played role in officers’ decision to handcuff teenager as he lay dying Daily Telegraph 01/07/26 Henry Nowak, 18, was stabbed to death in December last year Two police officers who arrested Henry Nowak before his death are being investigated for gross misconduct. The university student was handcuffed by police as he lay dying from stab wounds while Vickrum Digwa, his Sikh killer, was treated as a victim of racist abuse. The 18-year-old pleaded with the officers, telling them he had been stabbed, to which one of them replied: “Don’t think you have, mate.” The police watchdog said on Wednesday that this officer and another who had initially attended the scene were both under investigation for gross misconduct. The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) said it had expanded its investigation following discussions with Nowak’s family, who had made formal complaints against Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary. As well as ...
You don’t have to be John Betjeman to know where this Labour story will end – because we’ve heard it before link Daily Telegraph 29/06/26 It’s a brave politician who chooses to give his first keynote speech in a museum, but for Andy Burnham it seemed somehow appropriate. For his entire speech was something of a museum piece, an artefact redolent of the Michael Foot days of Labour politics: strikes and trade union banners, class warfare in Parliament and ranting Leftists on the streets. The public sector, nationalisation, the unions, the state, splashing around public money – these are Burnham’s tools to make things better . We know how this story ends. After all, Burnham evoked the era himself, even daring to give Foot’s donkey jacket a mention. In perhaps the most revealing phrase of the speech, he identified the “foundations of working class aspiration” as a “council home” and “good technical education”, a post-war image if ever there was one: the Labour vision of vast num...