Trevor Ringland’s essay on Special Branch, in the Newsletter on 14th May is worth a read.

Trevor, solicitor, British Lion and sometime unionist , while making valid points about the standard of BBC journalism and the use of victims on its programmes, is caught up in the idea that , like good sporting types , the British Establishment ought to have gone after the ‘cads”.

The inescapable fact is that the state , in pursuit of peace in the City of London and elsewhere in the Shires, perverted not only the stream of justice in our society but also society itself.

His naive view that there should have been “a very active investigation” into such chaps is risible to anyone who has the least grasp of the last forty years.