At this point, it’s hard to think of a single political quarter, left or right, that wouldn’t welcome comprehensive reform of London’s embattled police force. Yet it endures.
Like Hamas and Hezbollah, already banned under this act, the PFLP are a terrorist group. They have never hid this fact. Yet in Britain they, and support for them, remain legal.
Many of our criminal justice partners would prefer me to focus on ‘out of court disposals’. But for some offenders, and their victims, a custodial sentence is the proper outcome.
The public are more intelligent when it comes to public spending than may politicians give them credit for, and they know the difference between organisations that waste money and those that don’t.
He was dressed head to toe in black, both hands in his pockets, wearing both a hoodie and a black face covering. Was he a threat? I don’t know. But I certainly did not want to take my chances.
The strange but true tale of the unjust application of a Community Resolution Order – a growing means of dealing with low level offences that can have serious consequences for employment.
After two hundred years, we are finally repealing the Vagrancy Act. So why are ministers reviving its awful approach with clauses targeting “nuisance rough sleeping”?
By placing a duty on authorities to commission sufficient, child-specific support and advocacy services, along with developing separate statutory guidance, child victims of abuse can access uniform support, regardless of their location.
Social media is regularly awash with Brits understandably expressing their fury at violent criminals receiving risible sentences. People are now even hesitant to report crime because they feel, given the poor likelihood of justice, it is no longer worth the hassle.
Facing decades behind bars, rather than a few short years, is a significant part of making it impossible for county lines to function.
Voters believe four of the Government’s five key pledges are more likely to happen under Labour than the Conservatives. Meanwhile, 2019 Tory voters prioritise spending on public services over tax cuts,
The Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act expressly provides in Section 19 for an immunity system. Yet Sir Declan Morgan, the judge overseeing the process, says an adverse judgment will kill it.
It’s time the UK moved to a model where the biggest job in policing is the NCA head and not the commissioner of one force, however good he or she may be.
The elements that came together to see a Conservative elected Mayor in 2008 – a national mood turning against Labour, a near-celebrity candidate in the as-yet-untarnished form of Boris Johnson, and a radical and increasingly unpopular incumbent – are not currently at hand.
Over 14 years of government by a party I voted for (and am a member of), the prison service has been destroyed by wonkery, wokery, and criminally stupid austerity cuts.