The moment you’re born, you’re doomed. The moment you’re appointed Metropolitan Police Commissioner, you know it’ll end in tears.
I have a soft spot for Dame Cressida Dick, the latest head of the Met to become unsaddled in post – for a special reason: we have a mutual interest in Oscar Wilde. I am president of the Oscar Wilde Society and she shares a birthday with him: 16th October.
It was the men from the Met, of course, who arrested Oscar Wilde in 1895. In 2017,