Would scrapping jury trials save Britain’s broken courts?
The Sentencing Review, published in May, may not have had much to say about sentence length. But now we have…
Organised crime has conquered Britain’s prisons
Charlie Taylor, HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, has published his first annual report since Labour took office. It will make…
Why does Lord Hermer think two-tier justice claims are disgusting?
Lord Hermer, the Attorney General who personally authorised the prosecution of Lucy Connolly for a tweet, has broken his silence…
Baroness Casey has not held back
Baroness Casey’s ‘national audit’ of child sexual exploitation was published this afternoon, and it’s now clear why the government changed…
Head of the prison officers’ union: we should halve the prison population
The Prison Officers’ Association (POA) and its national chair Mark Fairhurst have a reputation for always wanting prisons to be…
Starmer’s plan to ‘smash the gangs’ isn’t serious
Keir Starmer has repeatedly promised to smash the gangs to secure our borders. But the reality is rather different. Yesterday,…
England now has a blasphemy law
Officially, blasphemy was abolished by New Labour in the 2008 Criminal Justice Act. But today, with the conviction of Hamit…
Tommy Robinson and the truth about jail beards
When Tommy Robinson walked out of prison this week, he was unrecognisable. The far-right activist, who was jailed for contempt…
Why do police accept criminal drug use?
Another day, another sign of the British state’s acceptance of criminality. This time it’s the news that almost half of people caught…
Decriminalising cannabis would be bad for black Londoners
Sadiq Khan, London’s mayor, has called for the possession of cannabis to be decriminalised, because he believes that the police…
Can Labour prevent the justice system from collapsing?
David Gauke’s long-awaited Sentencing Review is here. If its recommendations are accepted, we will see thousands of people spared jail…
Banning pointed kitchen knives won’t make us safer
Anarcho-tyranny is a term used to describe societies which obsessively regulate and punish law abiding citizens, while being unwilling or…
Lucy Connolly is the victim of a great injustice
Lucy Connolly has lost her appeal against her 31-month sentence for inciting racial hatred following the following the horrific murders…
The problem with Shabana Mahmood’s electronic tag roll-out
David Gauke’s sentencing review, which will report this week, is going to be far bolder than anyone expected. Today it…
The legal aid hack is very worrying
If you are ever unfortunate enough to need legal advice after being charged with a crime, and you can’t afford…
We are losing control of our prisons
After the horrific attacks at Frankland, after last week’s attack at Belmarsh, and after countless warnings, today’s news of three…
Peter Sullivan should never have been in prison
Peter Sullivan, a man of ‘limited intellectual capacity’ and ‘suggestibility’, has been exonerated after spending 38 years in jail for…
Why was Axel Rudakubana given a kettle?
Late last night, news broke of another attack by a high-profile prisoner at what should be one of our most…
Why are violent prisoners continuing to offend in jail?
Even for our broken prison service it’s been a terrible few days. On Saturday the jihadi terrorist Hashem Abedi used…
How could the HMP Frankland attack happen?
On Saturday, an awful assault took place at HMP Frankland. According to a statement from the Prison Officers’ Association (the…
Who will crack down on Britain’s corrupt prison governors?
It’s a story so wild as to be almost unbelievable. Kerri Pegg was a ‘rising star’ of the prison service,…
What is Labour doing to fix the grooming gangs scandal?
Thank God for Katie Lam. Yesterday the government tried to conduct a grubby betrayal of thousands of young girls groomed…
What the Southport Inquiry needs to do
The Southport killings were horrific, but should they have happened at all? We already know that the government’s counter-extremism programme,…
Are Islamist gangs in control of Britain’s most secure prison?
HMP Frankland, in Durham, is supposed to be one of the most secure jails in the country. The category A…
Unlocked was changing inmates’ lives. So why has Labour binned it?
Unlocked Graduates, a charity that recruited hundreds of high-calibre graduates into the prison service, was one of the few glimmers…
