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Probation officers won’t be able to cope with 5,500 prisoner releases
Today the government is releasing an estimated 1,700 prisoners early, under the scheme (SDS40) in which most inmates will only…
The truth about Jeremy Kyle
The inquest into the death of Steve Dymond, the unfortunate man who was found dead a week after his appearance…
Hot springs have doomed Japan’s net zero ambitions
Most people know that Japan is a country cursed with considerable seismic activity; frequent, and very occasionally devastating, earthquakes and…
The Harris campaign’s ‘out of time’ ploy
The Harris-Walz campaign is depending on Americans feeling so rushed this election that they don’t pay attention to the vice…
What Rachel Reeves told Labour MPs
Who was Rachel Reeves more worried about tonight when she addressed the Parliamentary Labour party? The Labour MPs who will…
How to score the Trump-Harris debate
This Tuesday’s debate is the most consequential moment of the “second” campaign, just as Trump’s debate with Biden was the…
Watch: Andrew Neil and Piers Morgan ask – has Trump lost his mojo?
It’s less than 60 days to go until polling day in America and the race could not be closer. Donald…
Kate’s message of hope is wonderful news for the Royals
The Royal Family has not had much to celebrate lately, so the relief that the world will feel with the…
How fake news thrived in the aftermath of the Southport stabbings
It has fallen to Jonathan Hall KC, the independent reviewer of state threat legislation, to say the obvious in pointing…
The Treasury holds the key to fixing the NHS
The most interesting thing about Lord Ara Darzi’s report on the health service, expected to be published this Thursday, is…
Why does Scholz want to speed up peace talks for Ukraine?
Is German chancellor Olaf Scholz giving in to pressure to reduce support for Ukraine and improve relations with Russia? Scholz…
Kamala has more to lose in the debate than Trump
The Kamala Harris campaign team apparently based their debate strategy assuming that ABC News would prove as pliable and willing…
MPs swap booze for soft drinks
Whither the future of parliament’s pubs? It was less than three months ago that Keir Starmer’s chief of staff Sue…
Labour is in denial about our bad universities
Our universities are in a mess. Too many degrees lack intellectual quality and utility, and leave those doing them with…
Michel Barnier puts the French left to shame
The French left took to the streets on Saturday to protest against the appointment of Michel Barnier as prime minister.…
Will Rachel Reeves hold her nerve over the winter fuel cut?
Will Rachel Reeves hold her nerve over the winter fuel payment? That’s the suggestion inside government ahead of a Commons…
This could be far worse than axing the winter fuel payment
You won’t find me mounting the barricades in defence of the winter fuel payment, though I’ll miss the pleasant surprise…
Thousands of prisoners are about to be released early. Is probation ready?
I met Anthony by the gates of Thameside prison in south-east London. A skinny, gaunt-looking man in his 40s, he’d…
Could Britain learn from Switzerland’s tough migrant policies?
The UK is currently struggling with balancing migrant rights and public safety. Record numbers of foreign national offenders are currently…
Will David Lammy apologise to Grenfell judge?
In the fall-out from last week’s devastating report on the Grenfell report, it seems one question has not been asked…
We should hunt down the companies responsible for Grenfell
I am suffering – and I hope readers will bear with me – a failure of imagination in the aftermath…
Keir Starmer is falling into the same trap as Francois Hollande
There has been no honeymoon for Keir Starmer after his election victory in July. That is hardly a surprise as…
The Greens are turning on the SNP
The SNP hasn’t wanted for its woes lately but now there is fresh trouble on the way. Lorna Slater, co-leader…
Keir Starmer: ‘We are going to have to be unpopular’
In his first major interview in Downing Street, the Prime Minister told Laura Kuenssberg that his government had to do…
The remarkable success of the Allied occupation of Germany
‘We came as adversaries, we stayed as allies, and we leave as friends,’ British prime minister John Major told crowds…
