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Plenty has been said about the politics of the governmentâs latest report on race. Barely any attention has been paid by most of the media to its actual evidence, even from supporters delighted that it has some. âThis report DOES have facts,â cooed Rod Liddle in the Sun, with the same sunny pleasure that a toddler might take from a book having words.
Yet the nature of those facts has barely been scrutinised by journalists. Instead, newspapers on the right have complained about âzealots of wokedomâ (the Express) and their âbaseless abuseâ (the Telegraph) of Tony Sewell, the commissionâs chief. As Matthew Syed wrote in the Sunday Times, âshouldnât this be on the evidence rather than the person who assembled it; shouldnât we play the ball rather than the man?â
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Humza Yousaf slammed for failing to monitor fixes to police complaints system
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Plans to strengthen the police complaints system have been announced (Andrew Milligan/PA)
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Plans to strengthen the police complaints system with the aim of reaching a “gold standard” have been announced by the Scottish Government and Lord Advocate.
Justice Secretary Humza Yousaf and Lord Advocate James Wolffe QC have published their response to former Lord Advocate Dame Elish Angiolini’s 490-page independent report on complaints handling, investigations and misconduct issues.