BRUTE HARWOOD: dragging on

Of course we knew all this the moment we saw the dense impenetrable mask that is Simon Harwood's brute face. Bully features, if ever I've seen self-referential obtuseness either side of the bars.

Tomlinson stood no chance; which of us would have?

Nothing will come of this cosy Old Boys' Network brouhaha.

Harwood defines and delights in the current constabulary culture and is too much the poster-boy for what the Establishment wants to establish.

There will be more dissembling and feinting; the press will be shut up and cautioned over future behaviour and coverage of HarGate ... and it'll go quietly down the memory hole while the Harwood thugeria get on with noisy celebrations.