David Spencer
@davespencer.bsky.social
Head of Crime & Justice for Westminster think tank, Co-founder @Police_Now, Previously @metpoliceuk police officer, “Not a terrible human”, “Common sense personified”
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
December 24, 2024 at 9:19 AM
“You’ll be visited by three spirits.”
The three spirits:
The three spirits:
Jasmin Paris is 100% my Sports Personality of the Year
December 9, 2024 at 12:19 PM
Jasmin Paris is 100% my Sports Personality of the Year
Reposted by David Spencer
Why Jasmin Paris should be #SPOTY24
She completed Barkley Marathons with 99 seconds to spare
- 33 Parkruns distance
- in a forest
- mostly off trail
- partially in dark
- no GPS watch
- ascended 2x height of Everest
- only 19 male runners have completed it in 29 years
- Jasmin was the 1st woman
She completed Barkley Marathons with 99 seconds to spare
- 33 Parkruns distance
- in a forest
- mostly off trail
- partially in dark
- no GPS watch
- ascended 2x height of Everest
- only 19 male runners have completed it in 29 years
- Jasmin was the 1st woman
December 9, 2024 at 10:46 AM
Why Jasmin Paris should be #SPOTY24
She completed Barkley Marathons with 99 seconds to spare
- 33 Parkruns distance
- in a forest
- mostly off trail
- partially in dark
- no GPS watch
- ascended 2x height of Everest
- only 19 male runners have completed it in 29 years
- Jasmin was the 1st woman
She completed Barkley Marathons with 99 seconds to spare
- 33 Parkruns distance
- in a forest
- mostly off trail
- partially in dark
- no GPS watch
- ascended 2x height of Everest
- only 19 male runners have completed it in 29 years
- Jasmin was the 1st woman
Definitely recommending Black Doves on Netflix...
Anyone who doesn't want to watch Keira Knightly playing a spy/assassin who at one point leaps off an exploding balcony, then relocates her dislocated shoulder against a wall….. /1
Anyone who doesn't want to watch Keira Knightly playing a spy/assassin who at one point leaps off an exploding balcony, then relocates her dislocated shoulder against a wall….. /1
December 6, 2024 at 10:17 PM
Definitely recommending Black Doves on Netflix...
Anyone who doesn't want to watch Keira Knightly playing a spy/assassin who at one point leaps off an exploding balcony, then relocates her dislocated shoulder against a wall….. /1
Anyone who doesn't want to watch Keira Knightly playing a spy/assassin who at one point leaps off an exploding balcony, then relocates her dislocated shoulder against a wall….. /1
Reposted by David Spencer
The other week, as I was crossing Hammersmith Bridge by foot, it occurred to me that its closure and the devastating Notre Dame fire happened weeks apart.
But while Paris has painstakingly restored a 14th century cathedral, London hasn't even managed to open a functioning bike lane on the bridge.
But while Paris has painstakingly restored a 14th century cathedral, London hasn't even managed to open a functioning bike lane on the bridge.
Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it
November 29, 2024 at 2:44 PM
The other week, as I was crossing Hammersmith Bridge by foot, it occurred to me that its closure and the devastating Notre Dame fire happened weeks apart.
But while Paris has painstakingly restored a 14th century cathedral, London hasn't even managed to open a functioning bike lane on the bridge.
But while Paris has painstakingly restored a 14th century cathedral, London hasn't even managed to open a functioning bike lane on the bridge.
La gloire de la France....
November 29, 2024 at 11:13 AM
La gloire de la France....
Reposted by David Spencer
In Britain they’d be about a quarter of the way through planning permission by now, confronting a gaggle of local retirees with too much time on their hands who never wanted a cathedral there anyway.
Wow. Here is one to brighten up your morning. The first images of the restored interior of Notre Dame cathedral. Breathtaking. In just five years France did it
November 29, 2024 at 9:02 AM
In Britain they’d be about a quarter of the way through planning permission by now, confronting a gaggle of local retirees with too much time on their hands who never wanted a cathedral there anyway.
William Hague, the new Chancellor of Oxford University, had previously made a career suggestion for one of his defeated rivals, Peter Mandelson.... how timely that there is a vacancy....
November 28, 2024 at 7:19 PM
William Hague, the new Chancellor of Oxford University, had previously made a career suggestion for one of his defeated rivals, Peter Mandelson.... how timely that there is a vacancy....
Wrote in the @telegraphnews.bsky.social today about Non-Crime Hate Incidents and how the >60,000 hours a year policing spends on them is a distraction from focusing on actual crime
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...
November 25, 2024 at 1:52 PM
Wrote in the @telegraphnews.bsky.social today about Non-Crime Hate Incidents and how the >60,000 hours a year policing spends on them is a distraction from focusing on actual crime
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...
Standing up to the anti-police activists will require political courage. This is an opportunity for a Labour Government to demonstrate that they are on the side of the law-abiding majority. They should take it.’
My piece in the @Telegraph on the Chris Kaba case.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10...
My piece in the @Telegraph on the Chris Kaba case.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10...
October 23, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Standing up to the anti-police activists will require political courage. This is an opportunity for a Labour Government to demonstrate that they are on the side of the law-abiding majority. They should take it.’
My piece in the @Telegraph on the Chris Kaba case.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10...
My piece in the @Telegraph on the Chris Kaba case.
telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/10...
The demonisation of police officers, going about their duty to protect the public, by a noisy minority has led us here. They have, supported by a cadre of legal activists, crushed the spirit of police officers.’
My piece in the @EveningStandard
on the Chris Kaba case
standard.co.uk/comment/met-...
My piece in the @EveningStandard
on the Chris Kaba case
standard.co.uk/comment/met-...
Chris Kaba trial: noisy anti-police coalition are trying to crush officers' spirit
The choice to name Sergeant Martyn Blake – the police officer who took the fatal shot which killed Chris Kaba – has placed him and his family in intolerable danger.
standard.co.uk
October 23, 2024 at 7:13 PM
The demonisation of police officers, going about their duty to protect the public, by a noisy minority has led us here. They have, supported by a cadre of legal activists, crushed the spirit of police officers.’
My piece in the @EveningStandard
on the Chris Kaba case
standard.co.uk/comment/met-...
My piece in the @EveningStandard
on the Chris Kaba case
standard.co.uk/comment/met-...