As Elaine and I walked back across Parliament Square after the Westminster Abbey Battle of Britain service, we passed a group of conspicuously armed policemen and women. As we were approaching the group, another band of women made a beeline for them – and one of them, an American woman, thanked the police for being there.
The police laughed, in an engaging way, and it struck me how – despite all their defects – we have great people in the police force. As a contrast, I imagined what the response might have been in the USA.
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