Explanation

It seems I need to expand on Wednesday's post.  Why did I put "To our shame"? What happened was unfortunate, confused, disorganised, chaotic even, but shameful? Well if you put "Menezes" into the search box above you will see that what I considered back then, and still consider as shameful is not so much the death of Mr Menezes, as that still to this day, no-one has been prepared to accept the slightest responsibility for what occurred.  Mistakes happen, but they happen as a result of somebody doing something they shouldn't, or not doing something they should.  And yet ten years on, we are still no nearer knowing who did or didn't do what.  The police officer in charge of the whole business has, in the best traditions of British public service cock-ups, been promoted and decorated.  There's the shame.