Ex-Met chief defends Cressida Dick over Daniel Morgan findings
Lord Blair of Boughton criticises independent panel judgment and calls Dick ‘finest officer of generation’
November 2019
Former Met police chief calls for focus on 'very tattered' justice system
Decline of police, courts and prisons a matter of ‘serious national concern’, says Ian Blair
February 2017
'She inspires confidence': Cressida Dick, the Met's first female commissioner
Dick returns to policing after time at the Foreign Office, bringing weight of her experience in counter-terrorism and operations
January 2015
‘Snooper’s charter’: four Lords in bid to pass changed version before election
Cross-party group’s last-minute amendments spark concern over scope of access to data intelligence agencies would get
July 2014
Met chiefs under fire over opposition to full-life sentences for police killers
Former commissioners Lord Blair and Lord Condon denounce terms of new bill as 'contemporary version of hanging'
August 2013
Lord Blair: we need laws to stop 'principled' leaking of state secrets
Former Metropolitan police commissioner says 'facilitating terrorism' by leaking should be made explicitly criminal
March 2012
Rebekah Brooks got police horse after lunch with Met chief, inquiry told
Lord Blair says loan of horse was arranged on day he had lunch with Brooks but he does not remember discussing it with her
February 2012
Greenslade
Dacre to speak at Stephen Lawrence lecture
Daily Mail editor joins ex-police chief Ian Blair at special event
September 2011
The new Met commissioner is facing a multi-headed monster of a job
Dave Hill
Dave Hill: Public mistrust, budget cuts, political pressures, a tinderbox on the streets… welcome to London, Bernard Hogan-Howe
July 2011
Guardian Focus
Guardian Focus podcast: The Metropolitan police crisis
After another resignation at the top of the Metropolitan police, we ask what's going wrong and how to ensure the mistakes of the phone hacking scandal are not repeated
April 2011
Justice is impossible if we cannot trust police forces to tell the truth
George Monbiot
George Monbiot: From Blair Peach to Ian Tomlinson, there is only one remedy for police officers found to have made false statements: sack them
November 2010
Andrew Brown's blog
Faith and policing
Andrew Brown: Lord Blair, the former head of the London police, talked with remarkable candour last night about his Christian beliefs
September 2010
Met asked to reveal what it knew about NoW hacking of officers' phones
News of the World faces fresh phone hacking charge
July 2010
London bombings: the day the anti-terrorism rules changed
The controversial Terrorism Act 2006 passed after the 7 July bombings lead to increased arrests and convictions
May 2010
John Prescott, Labour's scourge of class privilege, to take seat in House of Lords
John Prescott named peer in dissolution honours list
April 2010
Scotland Yard's leadership all white for first time in a decade
Metropolitan police without a top ranking minority ethnic officer after retirement of Commander Shabir Hussain
