We’ve seen gunshot wounds and babies born as a result of rape. With UK Border Force in Dover, we found a girl heading for a lifetime of sexual slavery.
Getting the economy moving won’t even begin to give the Government political momentum. It will need to conduct its own Fairness Audit.
Any fair-minded observer would think better of him at the end of yesterday’s press conference than he or she may have done at the beginning.
They seem no less relevant this morning than they were yesterday – and are unlikely to be answered this afternoon.
The proposals he will announce this evening can’t simply be taken on trust by voters.
The former Deputy Leader of the Labour Party abused his parliamentary privileges. Holding the powerful to account means blocking his peerage.
There are significant loopholes in our safeguarding measures that are entirely preventable, but potentially disastrous.
“The Light of Lights looks always on the motive, not the deed; the Shadow of Shadows on the deed alone.”
Plus: Sympathy for the Downing Street SpAds. The case for chemical castration. And: my interviews with the Tory leadership candidates.
Earlier this month, however, when it emerged that another rape gang had been operating with impunity, this time in Telford, the silence was deafening.
Polling suggests real concern among them about extremism. But one wouldn’t think so from the coverage of her appointment.
Even after all the problems, and the threadbare findings, Wiltshire Police show no sign of realising their errors.
By discussing a sensitive topic in Muslim communities, you do not give oxygen to racists. You cut off their supply.
There is a specific problem in Pakistan, especially where the majority of the Christians and Hindus respectively live, about non-Muslims being viewed as inferior.
Some of the criticisms of Sir Martin Moore-Bick have gone much too far, and seem to be attempts to make political points in the wake of a terrible tragedy.