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Tag Archives: Law and order
Protecting the Frontline and Saving on the Back Office
The Pre-Budget Report last week promised ring-fenced budgets for policing so that frontline policing services can be protected. This came with the caveat that £5 billion worth of efficiency savings need to be driven out of the public sector overall. … Continue reading
Far from IDeal
Alan Johnson’s announcement that he is not going to make ID cards compulsory could be any number of things. It is, first of all, yet another reannouncement – the cards have never actually been compulsory (except for airside workers in … Continue reading
Wasting time on things that aren’t a priority
Strangely, I don’t often read the Mirror. But this article is absolutely right. Hunting with dogs was banned – democratically, by a decision of the House of Commons, and in accordance with a Labour manifesto pledge – and agitating now to repeal the ban smacks of throwing a sop to what are perceived to be ‘core supporters’ in a mirror image of the way that the hunting ban itself was seen to have done… Continue reading
Perverts
Max Mosley’s trial has the media agog. The Times was not alone, yesterday, in printing those quotes from the ongoing case which it found most, umm, in the public interest (what Mosley said “on the pain of being spanked until … Continue reading
It’s time to stop releasing prisoners early
Announcements made during the Conservative Party Conference in Blackpool