British justice on trial

AS police come under pressure to review thousands of rape, sex assault and child abuse cases, British justice is in the dock.

Is evidence routinely withheld from defence lawyers? Does a presumption that complainants should always be believed – called for by militant feminists and recklessly backed in 2014 by the chief inspector of constabulary – lead officers to ignore facts that could help defendants?

Such are the hugely serious allegations made yesterday by leading lawyers, including Alison Levitt QC. If true, monstrous injustices may have been committed, doing no service whatever to genuine victims of sex crimes.

Justice demands these claims are fully investigated – and abuses stamped out. NO wonder the scriptwriter of W1A, which set out to satirise the BBC’s fatuous bureaucracy, has said he may not create another series. How was he meant to compete with real life, in a corporation advertising for a £78,000 ‘Head of Change’ with a job description running to four A4 pages of impenetrable jargon? Reading such gobbledegook, isn’t it hard to see how the monumentally management-heavy BBC can hope to survive in the world of Netflix and Disney? THIS paper has pulled no punches in branding Donald Trump an absurd narcissist, whose Twitter diplomacy is crass. But his sweeping tax reforms, which should transform the lives of Americans for the better, have earned our respect. They prove the benefits of having a businessman in the White House. Those who see nothing but bad in Mr Trump should give him credit where it’s due.