Chasing the embers – Met under fire
I came across an editorial review by Daniel Trilling recently.
Daniel Trilling is the author of Lights in the Distance, about refugees in Europe and in his article “Not Much like Consent: Crisis at the Met” published in London review of books Vol 45, No7 he reviews
Broken Yard: The Fall of the Metropolitan Police by Tom Harper.Biteback, 446 pp., £20, October 2022, 978 1 78590 768 5
and
Tango Juliet Foxtrot: How Did It All Go Wrong for British Policing? by Iain Donnelly.Biteback, 341 pp., £20, November 2021, 978 1 78590 716 6
it’s an interesting book review, although I don’t end up with what I hoped. I hoped to learn more about the two reviewed books but got a summary presented much like an opinion paper.
On the face of it I agree with a lot of the content but have an aside to some. Overall, the review has limited criticality and lacks the anchoring in peer reviewed academic research and literature that I am used to, but, it was readable and understandable.
Firstly, the only thing we...