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…
Britain still doesn’t have a blasphemy law
There are still some good judges left in England. Yesterday, one of them, Sir Joel Nathan Bennathan KC, granted Hamit…
The civil service is killing restorative justice
Failing institutions don’t like challenge, let alone being shown up. Few institutions are failing more tragically than our prisons –…
The luxury of French prisons
Nicolas Sarkozy, former president of the French Republic, has been convicted and sentenced to five years for a ‘criminal conspiracy…
The Quran knife attack is a travesty of justice
In June we discovered that England has an Islamic blasphemy law, when a court convicted Hamit Coskun for the ‘crime’…
Cutting prison education is a calamity
Prisons across the country are slashing education funding. According to the Guardian, public money for prison education courses is being reduced…
Asylum has become unsustainable
Data published yesterday has piled yet more pressure on the government to change its asylum policy. Analysis by the Telegraph…
Reform’s trans prisoner policy is a mess
Reform are in the headlines again, this time over confusion about their policy on trans prisoners. Yesterday Vanessa Frake, former…
Can AI prevent prison violence?
The government desperately needs to save the justice system, and it believes that technology might be part of the solution.…
The horror of police involvement in the grooming gangs
However bad you think the rape gang scandal is, it keeps getting worse. Yesterday, the BBC published a detailed investigation…
The women of Epping don’t need Tommy Robinson’s help
The people of Epping have a message for Tommy Robinson: stay away. The far-right activist is currently mulling joining protestors…
