Charles Malet

Charles Malet is a former police detective and an active smallholder in the south-west of England. He has travelled and worked in many parts of the world, visiting some of them as an infantry officer in the British Army. Charles began contributing to UK Column News following coverage of his resignation from the police over the introduction of divisive and discriminatory policy and legislation.

Search without suspicion: The Serious Violence Reduction Order

SVROs are a grievous and disproportionate assault on liberty: they might stick to you for life and make you searchable at the whim of English police. Why should law be liable to such potential abuse?

Police misconduct: Bad recruitment, poor vetting, or a failure of leadership?

The reaction against tolerance of abusive police has produced a counter-culture so muddled that even those peddling it are not quite sure how to harness it. Weak leaders, removed from the reality of those in their charge, have allowed the pendulum to ...

The Church of England: Ethically investing in pornography, weapons and embryonic stem cells

How pleased would parishioners be to know how much money the Church Commission has tied up in the business of extinction of life—either at the wrong end of a weapon or in a laboratory?

Interview with a Stormtrooper revisited: Do we have rights?

An ex-policeman considers David Scott's 2021 encounter with Edinburgh's finest.

Woke police: Bad judgement—or bad law?

How have our peace officers become Guardians of the Forces of Woke? One of the changes that brought it about is described as "diabolically stupid and almost purpose-built to waste police time and to give malevolent agents a free hit".

The police are not the public and the public are not the police

Why has the relationship between the public and the police (formerly referred to as the public in uniform) broken down?

“We save lives”: Kyiv School of Economics and its humanitarian appeal for rockets and drones

A "charitable" campaign for lethal equipment suggests that the notion of humanitarian aid really can be reframed, in order that the crucial elements of impartiality and neutrality are stripped away.