The many virtues of Theresa May’s statement on Abu Qatada
The Home Secretary’s statement on the deportation of Abu Qatada is a model of its kind. Theresa May conveys steely… Read more »
Posts Tagged: Law and order
Bitcoin and the privatisation of currency
You might think that only governments can legally print money (or, these days, create it electronically), but you’d be wrong…. Read more »
Chief Constables are squealing about democratic oversight? Good
By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter. One sure sign of a successful reform is when the vested interests it is intended to… Read more »
Grayling “plans to privatise the courts” (or make money and find savings from them, at any rate)
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Our columnist Jesse Norman asked yesterday whether the market principle should have limits (he… Read more »
Post-Woolwich, what should we be watching out for?
By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter. The full details of yesterday's horrific murder in Woolwich, and the terrorists who carried it out,… Read more »
Theresa May is right to take on police corruption
By Mark WallaceFollow Mark on Twitter. In Britain we have a proud policing tradition which has seen our forces of law and… Read more »
Heresy of the week: There is zero evidence for zero tolerance policing
City Journal has a fantastic profile by John Buntin of Bill Bratton, whose inspired leadership of the New York Police… Read more »
Heresy of the week: Russell Brand is right about drugs (but so is Peter Hitchens)
Russell Brand is not someone you’d expect to find writing for the Spectator, but here he is on the subject… Read more »
The next Conservative leadership election is under way
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. There's a triple significance to the post-Eastleigh interventions of the three main Conservative members… Read more »
Grayling and May in pincer movement on the ECHR
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Chris Grayling says in tomorrow's Sunday Telegraph that if David Cameron is returned with… Read more »
Legalising prostitution hasn’t worked and nor would legalising drugs
Last year, the Deep End featured a Julie Bindel article on prostitution. In a more recent article for the Spectator,… Read more »
50 per cent of Conservatives support the legal regulation or decriminalisation of cannabis – now where’s that review?
By Peter HoskinFollow Peter on Twitter The Daily Mail has written up a new opinion poll on drugs policy, conducted by… Read more »
Grayling’s new plan for young offenders: “We cannot go on just doing more of the same”
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. The vast majority of 15-17 year olds in Young Offender Institutions have at some… Read more »
Gun control: Barack Obama should follow in John Howard’s footsteps
In the wake of the murder of twenty children and six adults at a primary school in Newtown, Connecticut, Barack… Read more »
Compassionate conservatism from Grayling as he moves to cut re-offending
By Paul GoodmanFollow Paul on Twitter. Today is Chris Grayling's day to star in Downing Street grid – as the… Read more »