Ian Acheson

Cracking down on Facebook won’t stop teenagers being radicalised

7 February 2025 12:15 am

I’ve yet to meet an oncologist, thank God. But if I did turn up to be told I had cancer…

Why do Home Office staff think talk of two-tier policing is ‘extremist’?

29 January 2025 1:19 am

How do you create a low-trust society? One way to do so is to have an administrative class which seems to treat…

Prevent is not solely to blame for Southport failings

21 January 2025 8:41 pm

The assailant in the Southport massacre has pleaded guilty to the murders of three children in the town last year.…

Empty pledges won’t solve the knife crime epidemic

18 January 2025 2:23 am

On 23 September last year at 6.30 p.m. in the evening in a street in Woolwich, London, Daejaun Campbell cried…

How front-line police were failed in the summer riots

19 December 2024 7:30 pm

The police establishment has delivered its initial verdict on this summer’s rioting, following the massacre of children at Southport. Andy…

Why Labour’s policing targets won’t work

19 November 2024 12:29 am

This week, the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper plans to announce new police performance targets. Perhaps the government has been stung…

Is Airbnb to blame for rising crime in London?

25 October 2024 11:09 pm

Does Airbnb drive up crime in London? That’s the question posed of the world’s most successful short-term rental service in…

Mass prisoner releases aren’t working

22 October 2024 5:35 pm

Today, over a thousand offenders will walk out of jail early as part of the government’s ongoing emergency scheme to…

Texas-style reforms won’t save our prisons

26 September 2024 10:00 pm

Texas. Big country, big ideas. The new Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has become enamoured with an intriguing…

Labour’s early prison release scheme can’t afford to fail

5 September 2024 9:53 pm

Are you ready for SDS40? You might need to be if you’re unlucky enough to live in a high crime…

How long can our prison system carry on like this?

24 August 2024 3:47 am

Can the Ministry of Justice carry on without our failing prison system seizing up altogether? Today we learned that Magistrates…

Why the police have lost the public’s trust

13 August 2024 3:38 am

The Home Secretary has admitted a thing that has long been known to those of us without close protection officers: that…

Can our prisons take these thugs?

5 August 2024 6:39 pm

The last comparable period of civil disorder in this country happened in 2011. Then as now, the courts acted with…

The ‘community cohesion’ concept explains confusing police tactics

3 August 2024 6:00 pm

Merseyside police were very keen to rule out the Southport attack as ‘terrorism-related’. This was despite subsequent remarks from the…

Of course whole-life prisoners should be banned from marrying

2 August 2024 9:12 pm

Is there any point in rehabilitating prisoners sentenced to ‘whole life’ tariffs, who will die in custody? Today’s announcement banning…

How Labour’s jail strategy could come unstuck

8 July 2024 9:08 pm

Let’s talk cobblers. The Prime Minister has responded to the jail space crisis by ennobling the nation’s shoe mender-in-chief James Timpson…

There is no quick fix for Britain’s overcrowded prisons

4 July 2024 12:16 am

Imagine the scene. It’s Friday morning and the new Secretary of State for Justice, Shabanna Mahmood, has just slipped into…

Can Sinn Fein win the UK’s most marginal constituency again?

2 July 2024 11:46 pm

It’s Monday afternoon and I’m walking through the estate where I was born on the outskirts of Enniskillen in Northern…

Tougher sentences won’t stop women being killed

6 June 2024 10:30 pm

Manifestos come and go but women continue to be murdered by men they know in grotesquely high numbers. According to…

Tommy Robinson and the truth about two-tier policing

25 April 2024 3:08 am

Tommy Robinson, a self-invented English ‘patriot’, was free to attend yesterday’s St George’s Day event in central London which descended…

Prisons have lost the war on drugs

24 April 2024 12:47 am

Aldous Huxley’s dystopian best seller Brave New World, published back in 1934, envisaged a society where stability was enforced by…

Suella Braverman is wrong to call for Mark Rowley to go

22 April 2024 10:16 pm

Why did Gideon Falter cross the road? Or try to? That is a question that went viral this weekend. A…

Who will take responsibility for our appalling prisons?

29 March 2024 9:13 pm

We know our prison system is awash with drugs but just what are they smoking at the Ministry of Justice?…

Only radical reform will save our overcrowded prisons

22 March 2024 5:00 pm

What should we do when there’s no cell space left in our disordered jails? The prison population figures published yesterday…

Have the Tories finally woken up to the extremism problem?

15 March 2024 1:49 am

Michael Gove has a reliable track record for sounding the alarm on ideological hatred, so are his latest proposals on…