It is true that I once met the Coppersblog, but it didn't happen at all like he said. And we certainly didn’t go to any “fashionable restaurants”.
It was a bright cold day in January, and I was getting mugged in Shepherd’s Bush by some Africans. Or they might have been East Europeans –these Poles and Somalis all look the same to me. This policeman was walking past on his way to the BBC, and I explained that I was middle class and asked if he wouldn’t mind dispersing them with his baton, tear gas, taser, Japanese fighting sticks... etc.
He said he would love to help, but he had to appear on the Simon Mayo show. Not to arrest Mayo -that would be too much to hope for- but to mouth off about the crime wave.
I told him he was a necessary evil, and with mutual expressions of esteem we parted.
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