There has been a fair amount of adverse comment during the course of the past few days concerning Sir Ian Blair’s ill judged comments about alleged “media bias”. He has followed up the folly of that pronouncement by reiterating his intention to bear down hard upon “middle class” Class A drug use.

The media bias allegation was of course welcomed by certain elements of the Race Relations Industry.  I don’t know whether the allegations are well founded or not.  This is because there is not any data to confirm the situation one way or the other.  This, you might think, should be a good reason for someone to keep their opinions to themselves, but then, Sir Ian is a politician.

It has always bemused me that the use of “recreational” Class A drugs by the “chattering classes” never seemed to draw the full ire of the Police.  Anyone could be forgiven for suspecting a blind-eye was being turned[1].  Cocaine is the drug of choice for a significant minority of those engaged for example not only in the world of sport, popular music, the arts and the media but also our current political ruling classes, elected and "servant".  It is an accepted thing and it reeks of double standards.

I doubt that Sir Ian’s crusade against the “middle classes” will be a great success.  As now, anyone with any popular or political clout will avoid detection. As ever, the politically disenfranchised, the usual suspects and the ordinary middle classes[2] will take the fall.