All articles from: June, 2008

Rise of the Bland Statement

I was read­ing a BBC News art­icle about a teen­ager who was stabbed and nearly killed. Hor­rific enough in its own right, but it was the fol­low­ing com­ment by the Met­ro­pol­itan Police that annoyed me:
“We take any crime repor­ted to us ser­i­ously and we will invest­ig­ate everything fully.”
Here was a young man, nearly killed, and the […]

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