Juggling With EggsWill historians look back and wonder why the police focused their efforts on Quaker Meeting Houses and never Tufton Street or the private clubs of Mayfair?
"We cannot get into a situation where groups planning criminal acts can escape police action simply by booking rooms in certain venues”
Deputy Assistant Commissioner James Harman
I refer you to my previous point.
https://news.sky.com/story/15-activists-arrested-over-mass-shoplifting-campaign-plot-13515889
Gentleman’s clubs have actually been belatedly acknowledged as crime scenes. Chris Pincher’s sexual assaults at the Carlton Club brought down the Tory government, but no criminal proceedings.
Former Tory MP, Patrick Spencer also allegedly carried out sexual assaults at the Groucho club…but we’re still waiting for justice to be served and he still sits in Parliament.
Does the Met serve the interests of gay and female victims of crime?
Most recent update I could find on last night’s arrests for conspiracy to shoplift at a Quaker Meeting House:
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/03/06/quaker-meeting-raided-by-metropolitan-police/
“Whilst we take the planning of criminal acts very seriously, we believe that this incident is a deliberate targeting of committed young people who want to make our country a more equitable place. This raid is part of a systematic stifling of dissent.
That this is the second time in a year that the police have raided our meeting house dramatically illuminates the broader trend in the UK of cracking down on those who disagree with the government.”
Oliver Robertson, #Quakers in Britain
OccasionalDucksThanks for highlighting the story, it has slipped past me.
Coverage has been very low key compared to when the Met pulled the same stunt on a Quaker Meeting House last year. Don’t think the Guardian have covered it at all.