The race is on!

The latest review of what the police get up to has found that rapists and serial burglars routinely get away with a caution. And that’s not likely to be the end of it. Which police “service”, I ask myself, will claim the dubious honour of being the first to let a murderer get away with a caution? And is the next logical step for coppers to demand a share of the haul from a bank robbery as part of the deal for letting the blaggers walk?