‘Pausing the Police’, the 2025 Salter Lecture, by Abimbola Johnson

‘A call to pause. To stop, to reflect, to breathe before power is exercised’.

by Review by Joseph Jones 30th May 2025

The selection of Jeremy Corbyn as 2024 Salter lecturer was, according to Yearly Meeting Agenda Committee, the wrong person in the wrong place. It could have no complaints this year: Abimbola Johnson is an award-winning human rights barrister with experience of criminal law, police scrutiny, and inquiry work. Two months on from the raid on Westminster Meeting House, she was the perfect choice.