Why was the West Midlands Police chief allowed to retire?
Even as he resigned, Craig Guildford couldn’t do the decent thing. Perhaps that’s no surprise. We have learned in recent…
The public are right: citizenship is a privilege, not a right
Keir Starmer is, in many ways, a remarkable prime minister. He is remarkably uncharismatic and remarkably unable to discern the…
Why London feels lawless
Mark Rowley, the head of the Metropolitan Police, has been discussing London’s crime rates. Rowley it seems, is eager to…
Tags for asylum seekers are a huge distraction
There’s a strange pattern in how the UK discusses policy, and once you notice it you realise it’s everywhere. What…
Could Alaa Abd el-Fattah have his British citizenship revoked?
It’s a difficult Monday for the Prime Minister. Shortly after Keir Starmer expressed his ‘delight’ that Egyptian dissident Alaa Abd…
Nigel Farage is right to go after civil servants who let in sex offenders
British civil servants have almost never faced real consequences for their failures. If Reform come to power, that might change.…
Britain shouldn’t rely on foreigners to guard our prisons
Shabana Mahmood’s plans to reduce migration hit a setback yesterday. It emerged that around 2,500 foreign national prison officers who…
The fiscal case for mass migration is being demolished
Perhaps because it’s the week before Christmas, the Migration Advisory Committee’s (MAC) latest annual report has attracted little attention. Many…
The anti-Muslim hate definition will be bad for free speech
After a long wait, the government’s Islamophobia definition has finally taken form. There has been plenty of criticism of the idea,…
The open borders crime scandal
On 10 May this year a 15-year-old girl was with friends near parkland on the outskirts of Leamington Spa. Shortly…
The evil of the grooming gangs is finally being exposed
It has now been six weeks since the inquiry into ‘Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse’ fell into chaos. Over…
Why won’t Lammy tell us about prisoners released by mistake?
It’s now over six weeks since Hadush Kebatu’s ‘release in error’ sparked a two day manhunt, and highlighted our prison…
Prisoners playing video games with their guards is no bad thing
Another week. Another video from within a prison. More words of outrage. This time it’s a video showing a prison…
Epping is being punished by the asylum system
Just two weeks ago Epping lost its court battle to shut the Bell Hotel and expel unwanted asylum seekers from the…
The CPS is desperate for a backdoor blasphemy law
I had hoped I would never have to write about Hamit Coskun again. After the Quran-burner won his appeal in October, it…
Shabana Mahmood’s reforms are still open to abuse
After the pandemic the Boris Johnson government took a fateful and disastrous decision to suppress rising inflation by massively expanding…
Shabana Mahmood has gone further than expected
‘This is a moral mission for me, because I can see illegal migration is tearing our country apart, it is…
The people of Epping have had enough
The Bell Hotel in Epping has hardly been out of the news since the summer. In July, Bell resident Hadush…
Prisons shouldn’t rely on migrant labour
Charlie Taylor, the Chief Inspector of Prisons, has a habit of speaking difficult truths which senior civil servants might wish…
Accidental prison releases are all too common
Yesterday His Majesty’s Prison Service released a sex offender by mistake. That would be bad enough on its own, but…
Rudakubana’s school knew he was trouble
Quietly, day-by-day, the inquiry into the Southport killings is revealing how disastrous failures of the British state led to Axel…
It’s time for Jess Phillips to resign
Should Jess Phillips resign? That’s the demand made by four survivors of the ‘grooming gangs’ in a public letter to…
It’s about time abusive fathers were stripped of their parental rights
It’s not often the Ministry of Justice gets it absolutely right. But they have today. It has been announced that…
The Canterbury Cathedral graffiti isn’t transgressive
Canterbury Cathedral’s ‘Hear Us’ ‘art installation’, in which the heart of English Christianity has been covered in fake graffiti, has…
The death of Ian Watkins shows our prisons are out of control
Many have celebrated, and perhaps none will have mourned the murder of former Lostprophets frontman and prolific sadistic paedophile Ian…
