Reviews & News
Christmas is cancelled
by Kevin Maxwell •
With this year being an eventful one for me culminating in Monday gone, Christmas is cancelled. It will be my first without a tree, and one not having bought a single present. It’s not because I’m bah humbug, but simply that I don’t feel like celebrating. Sometimes when you don’t, you shouldn’t. I do hope…
Inspiration & Humour
The World Is Not Enough
by Kevin Maxwell •
If you’re reading this post, you may have noticed that the world didn’t end today as predicted. Which, may have been a bit of a bummer for some. I noted in China as per the picture (courtesy of AFP) that, survival pods were even built in Hebei province for 21 December. What are they going…
Inspiration & Humour
He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother
by Kevin Maxwell •
Broken Britain & Policing
Never underestimate the stupidity of idiots
by Kevin Maxwell •
I came across a blog earlier, which caught my attention. It’s a post about me, with regards to the Metropolitan Police Service’s latest tactic. One of the paragraphs resonated with me, (well, the whole thing did) as it stood out. The blogger writes, about My Fight for Justice: Did he reveal state secrets while telling…
Health & Travel
Exclude Vulnerable Severe HMG e-petition
by Kevin Maxwell •
e-petition Earlier, I was asked by Lynn Blackmore to support her e-petition below with Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom. I didn’t have to think twice, about supporting Lynn. Please find the time to read what Lynn has wrote in her petition, and support it to help make the lives of those Vulnerable Severe…
Reviews & News
Statement of McCue & Partners
by Kevin Maxwell •
Our client, Kevin Maxwell, a dedicated former detective of the Metropolitan Police Service SO15 Counter Terrorism Command, who publicly challenged discrimination in the Metropolitan Police, was ‘dismissed’ from the Service yesterday by a Misconduct Tribunal for “discrediting the police service and undermining public confidence in it”. In fact, Kevin, who is also black and gay, already…
Broken Britain & Policing
Institutional Victimisation at the Met
by Kevin Maxwell •
Earlier, I found out that the Metropolitan Police Service held a Misconduct Hearing today and dismissed me for the second time in a year – from the police service, and my post as a detective. A week, before Christmas. The Police Commissioner Bernard Hogan-Howe had charged me with Gross Misconduct x 2 for Undermining Public…
Reviews & News
Connecticut #Hope #Change
by Kevin Maxwell •
God bless the families of those who died in Connecticut, including children. Thinking of the survivors – #Hope #Change.
Inspiration & Humour
I support The LGF’s Love Equal Marriage!
by Kevin Maxwell •
www.lgf.org.uk/equal
Inspiration & Humour
The Queen’s ‘Equal Love’ #EqualMarriage
by Kevin Maxwell •
Broken Britain & Policing
Tory Pride & Prejudice
by Kevin Maxwell •
With the news today that, the British Prime Minister David Cameron is to defy many of his own party and allow same-sex marriage in England and Wales is something in itself. Since I started writing this blog and Social Justice and Equality articles in 2010, I’ve not been easy on the Prime Minister which is…
Health & Travel
World Aids Day – Never Forget x
by Kevin Maxwell •
Reviews & News
Happy December
by Kevin Maxwell •
Inspiration & Humour
Remembering James Baldwin 1924-1987
by Kevin Maxwell •
Who died 25 years ago today. “Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have.…
Reviews & News
Thoughts on Rubicon
by Kevin Maxwell •
With Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday declaring in the House of Commons that he didn’t want to cross the ‘Rubicon’ with regards to The Leveson Inquiry report into the Culture, Practice and Ethics of the British Press, it got me thinking… he is very much out of touch with the ordinary citizen. I mean, I…