GEOFF BOTTOMS relishes a profoundly human portrait of a family as it evolves across 55 years in Sheffield
Copper Lady: Life in the Met and Lords
Plodding plod account of rising through the police ranks
Jenny Hilton
PAUL DONOVAN applauds an excellently crafted new musical that explores the life and death of Ruth Ellis
PAUL DONOVAN is tickled by the excruciating take-downs of one of the funniest, wittiest, political writers around.
RON JACOBS points out, via a transcription of Kissinger’s secret recordings, that Trump could never have existed without Nixon and Kissinger
ELLIS RAE is persuaded that the advantages of the ‘talking cure’ are superior to the treatment of mental illness with drugs
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BILLED as the book that reveals the corruption, racism and heavy drinking rife in the Metropolitan Police, Copper Lady is a ponderous potted history of Jenny Hilton, potentially a pioneering police officer, that could have been so much more.
There has been fundamental change during her tenure at the Met, although it takes seven chapters before we even get to her joining the force.
Her journey starts in the 1950s, when women made up just 1 per cent of the service and were left to deal with prostitutes, teenagers and neglected children and ends with her elevation to the peerage in the 1990s, when she spoke out against the Iraq war.
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