Daniel Elton, Author at Left Foot Forward: Leading the UK's progressive debate

Ken Clarke’s reforms risk putting penal reform back a generation

7 December, 2010

Ken Clarke has quickly become the favourite coalition minister of many progressives for his talk of cutting the numbers of prisoners, and modernising Britain’s rehabilitation services. He has pledged to reduce the prison population from the current high of 85,000test

Even a second Rabin could not save the Israeli Labor Party

Daniel Elton

4 November, 2010

Maybe for Rabin, the date was always 1948 or 1967, and all it took was force of will for Israel to achieve whatever it wanted. To listen to Israeli leaders now, is to travel still further back in time. The date is always 1938, the place is always Munich, the enemy is always Hitler.

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