How front-line police were failed in the summer riots
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
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?
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
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
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
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?
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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?
Michael Gove has a reliable track record for sounding the alarm on ideological hatred, so are his latest proposals on…
Does France hold the key to cracking down on Islamist extremism?
Are we being ‘poisoned’ by extremism? The Prime Minister seems to think so. His speech on the steps of Downing…
Why Prevent is still failing to tackle Islamist extremism
What is the core mission of the Government’s ‘Prevent’ strategy? When William Shawcross presented his review of our flagship counter extremism programme…
Should Brianna Ghey’s killers ever be released?
In the wicked murder of poor Brianna Ghey, it’s not hyperbole to say the Devil is in the details. Thousands…
Keeping the peace: the politics of policing protest
Armistice Day is meant to be a moment of solemn national unity. Yet this year it is expected to coincide…
