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…
Will Reform’s crime crackdown work?
It’s hard to disagree with Nigel Farage’s diagnosis that ‘Britain is lawless’. The Reform leader painted a bleak image of…
The ‘morons’ who chopped down the Sycamore Gap tree don’t deserve prison
Our trees – oak and beech, soft and ancient, sycamores, whose seeds spin and tumble away every autumn – are…
The UK should not have to ration water
The UK’s steady decline continued today with reports that water companies are looking to introduce ‘surge pricing’ in order to…
What Richard Hermer gets wrong about international law
Our two-tier Attorney General, Lord Richard Hermer, is in the news again. The controversial lawyer and ‘old friend’ of the…
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…
