Hubris and the Man They Call Commander Pc

Daily Mail (August 18, 2005)

Author: Richard Pendlebury

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THE dictionary definition of hubris could have been written for the occasion: Arrogance leading ultimately to ruin.

Shortly after Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Ian Blair said he was 'immensely proud' of the way his force was handling the terrorist threat, officers shot dead a totally innocent man at Stockwell Tube station.

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Hubris and the Man They Call Commander Pc

Even this did not appear to dent the pride of Commissioner Blair.

Within days of the tragedy, he was describing the work of his antiterrorist officers as clos...

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