While the media zeroes in on the trivia of Westminster, whatever point of principle it was over is now lost in the noise. I can’t speak for all but I can’t be alone in being bored rigid with it. Similarly, one is hardly compelled to care that Liz Truss allegedly wasted £500,000 of taxpayers’ cash on private jet to Australia. Where the estimated cost comes from I don’t know – or care, but it’s safe to say the story is confected bollocks.

Either way, we think it’s more newsworthy that Police are solving the lowest proportion of crimes on record as sex offences hit a new high. Just six per cent of all crimes resulted in a charge in the year to September 2021, equivalent to only one in 17 offences being solved, according to Home Office figures published on Thursday. That represents a fall from 7.3 per cent in the previous year and is just half the charging rate of 15.5 per cent six years ago, when records began. At the same time, the number of sex offences in a single year has risen to 170,973, the highest on record.

This tends to confirm the perception that the police have lost control of the streets. We are seeing record numbers of teenagers slain on our streets and if there is a “new normal” following the Covid lockdowns, it’s machete crime. London is becoming Soweto on Thames. Or rather it would be if London schools could boast literacy rates as impressive as Soweto in recent years.

Another unwholesome trend over the last couple of years has been violent antisemitic attacks carried out not by the far right, but by those we are told are enriching diversity. Britain is increasingly an unsafe country for Jews thanks to our open borders. We were told by Priti Patel that our immigration policy would be geared to attract the “brightest and best”. This is clearly not the case. Something is going badly wrong, we let virtually anyone in – and seemingly every week, the NGOcracy creates a new legal barrier to deportation.

This lawlessness is not confined to London either. Police in Sheffield have urged people to “walk in groups wherever possible” following a spate of armed robberies in one area of the city. Rotherham MP Sarah Champion says her town lives in fear of cannabis gangs, be it anti-social behaviour or gang turf wars – where gun crime is now a component. She said one day there had been four electricity blackouts in the town due to drug farms, adding: “It’s been a nightmare”.

The local police have said “We can’t help but notice that many of the people we’ve found inside cannabis grows recently are of Albanian origin. Sometimes people question why we would refer to someone’s background in a post like this. The reason is that there appears to be a group or organised criminals originating from the West Balkans who are responsible for many of the cannabis factories that we are finding, and they are putting people’s lives in danger by bypassing the meter and getting their electricity that you are paying for directly from the grid”.

Since the nineties, we’ve been bombarded with propaganda that cannabis is mostly harmless, but the weight of evidence now suggests otherwise and as Peter Hitchens regularly notes, it is a factor uniting a number of violent crimes up to and including terrorism. It is no longer the natural product it once was. Cannabis plants are hyper-engineered for maximum potency, which is directly linked to depression and schizophrenia. The illegal drug trade in the UK is estimated to cost society £19bn per year.

Meanwhile, everyone watching the situation anticipates record numbers of dinghy arrivals this year while Priti Patel sits on her hands, despite landing a substantial majority on the back of a promise to sort it out.

We are not remotely surprised to see that crime is spiralling out of control. It is no doubt linked to our non-enforcement of immigration law, but also a consequence of amalgamating police forces and centralising them in fortresses as opposed to community based police stations. Police can spend half their shifts driving to and from their remote bases - acting as a taxi service for miscreants. Community policing is dead.

Law and order, though, is not simply a matter of policing. It requires a functioning court system. There we find no coherence whatsoever. It’s certainly good news that the police are taking sexual offences more seriously than ever but judges are evidently not getting the memo. Casual observers of the news could be forgiven for thinking recent third world arrivals hold a special exemption for sexual violence. Meanwhile, we learn this week that a “student” who repeatedly raped a 12-year-old girl walked free after a judge said he was immature while his victim was a ‘sexualised’ Tinder user. Something is definitely going wrong in our courts.

This is not by any means a Covid related phenomenon. Similar examples of this dysfunction can be found going back a few years now, and at some point we have to simply surrender ourselves to the fact that violence against women and girls, and the rape of minors, is of no importance to our elites. Gwent police spent this week hunting down a disabled woman (a feminist activist) for allegedly putting “hateful” stickers on lamp posts. They searched her home and took away books they considered hateful.

Are you getting the message? Put up a sticker pointing out that “3 women are killed by men each week” and “domestic violence kills” is “hate” directed “towards the transgender community” for which they will throw you in a cage, but rape a twelve year old girl and that’s absolutely fine. Alrighty then!

There is much more going on than we are permitted to know. Local media routinely reports on violent crime and sex offences, but omits any description of the attacker – largely because they don't bother with journalism and merely re-tread police press releases. The police believe that giving people facts will “enflame community tensions”, giving rise to the widely held assumption that no description is a full description. We know what’s happening. They just won’t say it.

Still, though, we can’t expect the plod to take time out of their busy schedule to crack down on such things when they urgently need to ascertain whether the PM had a birthday party. And god forbid that our media might give something of its runtime to actual news. The Telegraph today carries the headline ” Theresa May fires warning shot to Boris Johnson over ‘partygate'”. “Nobody is above the law” says May. Except if you’re an asylum seeker who raped a twelve year old. But that’s the party of law and order for you.