Are you beginning to work out what has happened? Police do nothing while self-righteous ninnies dig up an ancient lawn in a beautiful city.

The same police force close the roads in the name of 'human rights', to suit the same arrogant, dogmatic protesters.

Not enough? Think this is just an isolated incident? No.

Will you please wake up to the fact that this country has undergone a silent but deadly revolution, and the takeover of the country by people who despise you and your morals is almost complete.

Police do nothing while self-righteous ninnies dig up an ancient lawn in a beautiful city. The same police force close the roads in the name of 'human rights', to suit the same arrogant, dogmatic protesters. They are pictured above digging outside Trinity College, Cambridge

Try this. The victims of quite serious violent crimes are persuaded by police to take part in an insulting farce called 'restorative justice'.

In one recent example, an off-duty prison officer escaped both punishment and richly deserved dismissal after brutally assaulting a young man for no reason.

The local newspaper in Startforth, County Durham, recorded: 'Ben Matthews, 18, said neighbours had to pull his assailant off him in an unprovoked attack that happened yards from his home.'

Mr Matthews had just got off the bus and was walking home when a man began trying to make conversation with him.

'He'd tried talking to me and claimed he was an undercover off-duty prison officer and he needed to see inside my bag.'

When Mr Matthews refused, the man dragged him off the main road and punched him five or six times.

In the law, in the Civil Service and local government, the major charities, the political parties, the schools, the churches, the TV studios and the social media companies, the Long March Through the Institutions is still going on. The damaged green in Trinity College, Cambridge is pictured above

When Mr Matthews went to the police station the next day, covered in cuts and bruises, he found the assailant was there already, free as the air, in reception.

Police told Mr Matthews that his attacker would have only been prosecuted for common assault, though I am not quite sure how they can have reached that conclusion.

So Durham police, whose policy on drugs is notoriously so soft it makes a marshmallow look hard, turn out (as I rather suspected) to be soft on other things as well.

They decided to put the attacker on something called the Community Checkpoint Scheme 'as it was better for him'. Better in what way?

Apparently rapists, robbers and murderers are not (yet) eligible for this escape from justice.

Nor, of course, are those accused of 'hate crimes'. But be patient. The authorities are working on this.

In one recent example, an off-duty prison officer escaped both punishment and richly deserved dismissal after brutally assaulting a young man (Ben Matthews, who is pictured above) for no reason

The idea that criminals are bad people who need to be punished and deterred has been abandoned. Crime is now officially a disease to be cured by 'treatment'. The criminals themselves are not to be blamed.

We've all begun to see this in operation – disappearing police and courts, endless feeble cautions and unpaid fines, prisons which spit out their inmates weeks after they enter.

And, of course, more crime. Robbery and murder will in time grow as common as burglary and assault have become since we gave up detecting or punishing them. And then they'll no doubt be eligible for 'restorative justice' too.

The police, like our immoral, greedy ruling class, no longer believe in right and wrong. They are paramilitary social workers who do not themselves blame criminals for their crimes. They see it as their job to negotiate neutrally between 'offenders' and 'victims'.

The only thing they'll really come down hard on is people trying to defend themselves or their property, a challenge to the liberal monopoly.

This is a national problem, as is the takeover of the police by ultra-Leftist dogmas. Individual officers are powerless against this relentless indoctrination.

As I wrote in this newspaper, about lone traditional police officers, back in June 2004: 'But what can he do, by himself? Inch by inch, piece by piece, the world he grew up in has been dismantled and replaced by another.

The same thing is happening to almost everyone he knows. And so, the very people who would once have complained loudly about 'political correctness gone mad' find themselves enforcing exactly that.' Do you think this process is over?

The idea that criminals are bad people who need to be punished and deterred has been abandoned. Crime is now officially a disease to be cured by 'treatment'. A stock image is used above for illustrative purposes [File photo]

Not a bit of it. In the law, in the Civil Service and local government, the major charities, the political parties, the schools, the churches, the TV studios and the social media companies, the Long March Through the Institutions is still going on.

How Lenin must look up longingly from his warm place in hell and envy these revolutionaries, who have succeeded where he failed.

The place may look roughly the same. But when the honest citizen now turns to the State for protection or truth or help, he no longer gets it.

He receives, from the flapping mouth of some dogmatised jobsworth, a series of excuses.

And if he complains, then he will find out that the one thing the new State will protect with all its might is its monopoly of power and thought.

If Extinction Rebellion were not as thick as they are nasty, they would have realised by now that they have already won.

But then they couldn't dig up lawns and close roads.

Join the dots yourself

This time I am going to ask you to do the work.

There have been several major stories in the past week, at home and abroad, from showbiz tragedies to alleged terrorism and a suburban fence dispute, where I suggest you wait and see (or look up, for in some cases it is known) if mind-altering drugs – either so-called antidepressants or marijuana – turn out to have been involved.

Nobody will do anything about it, but it is better to know than not.

History buried under a snowdrift of lies

I have now struggled half way through the BBC's most recent travesty of Agatha Christie, The Pale Horse. And in the same week I endured the latest episode of ITV's Endeavour.

Agatha Christie isn't holy writ and I don't, in principle, object to messing around with her stories if it makes them better. But this seemed to me to be a hymn of hate against the Britain of 60 years ago.

It was almost as if the camera lens had been smeared with a yellowish slime, to make the era look grim and sordid. Was anyone happy?

Twisting the past: Rufus Sewell and Kaya Scodelario in Agatha Christie's The Pale Horse. Bit by bit the actual past is lost under a great, thick snowdrift of propaganda and falsehood

Was anyone normal? It appeared not. I am often accused of viewing the 1950s as a 'Golden Age', when I do not. There never was a golden age.

Much about the 1950s was worse than now, the incessant smoking, the medical care, the food which often contained actual gristle.

Yet it was also a more carefree time than most of us can now imagine, when most people could afford to live reasonably well on modest pay, when children did not hide indoors, in constant fear of paedophiles, traffic and pollution.

My own recollection is it was also much kinder, softer spoken and more patient, but I may have been lucky.

A time I recall in much more detail is 1970 in Oxford, my home town, supposedly portrayed in Endeavour. Last week's episode claimed to be about events surrounding the General Election that summer.

It featured two racially motivated knife murders, which I cannot recall (odd, as such things were so rare then), and invented a political party (a sort of BNP) and its candidate who definitely did not stand for election that year.

This false plot, set in an invented past, gave an excuse for the young Morse and his boss Fred Thursday to go round lecturing everyone on how racist they were, from the smug point of view of 2020.

They may have solved some crimes while doing so, but it's the woke lectures I recall.

Bit by bit the actual past is lost under a great, thick snowdrift of propaganda and falsehood.

Much of it takes the form of fiction and drama.

And once they've persuaded us that the past was all bad, they'll move on to the next bit, getting us to believe that the present is wonderful.

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