BS

02/11/2025

Geoffrey Robertson AO, KC, and all round bullshit artist, just wrote in defence of Sam Kerr that all English police are stupid.

“Or were they really stung by the suggestion that English policemen might be stupid?

This would hardly come as a revelation. A rich comic vein begins with Shakespeare’s Constable Dogberry and Gilbert and Sullivan’s policemen of Penzance. Recently, the epithet was used by every media and political commentator of senior officers at Scotland Yard, who in “Operation Midland” accused renowned public figures of being paedophiles on the palpably false allegation of a fantasist. I sued the metropolitan police on behalf of one victim and obtained nearly $2 million for their gross negligence – i.e. their stupidity.”

So this beacon of human rights has used a handful of datapoints to brand a whole community of public servants as stupid, over a period of 500 years no less.

That’s exactly how racism works; dysfunctional heuristics for the lazy and the simple.

Might I suggest that he’s both stupid and white? The former being self evident and the latter a fact.

However I hasten to add that the two characteristics aren’t causally connected.

Which was what Sam Kerr definitely meant. It was meant as an insult, one only possible from the position of extreme privilege.