Whose Side are They On?

magine a bonkers world where the police hires 16-year olds, where two spilled crisps will cost you GBP80, where councils employ child informers, where a baby is refused a passport because it is photographed topless, where a woman faces jail for singing to her children, where a coma victim is blasted with police Tasers. Well, welcome to 21st century Britain! Best-selling author and journalist Alan Pearce guides us through a tsunami of shocking new laws and stupendously mad regulations. A growing army of community officers, council wardens, car park officials knows how to find you. But whose side are they on...?!