Citizen empowerment v the “font of fear”
John Denham is at war with the ‘broken Britain’ narrative; his speech on Wednesday left it pockmarked with facts from a Britain not nearly so broken.
Tom Tàbori
UK prisoners ratio second only to US amongst G7 countries
As a new report calls on the prison population to be cut by a third, figures reveal Britain is second only to the US in its prisoners-per-population ratio.
UK fulfilling fruits of 1980s deregulation not 1970s “paranoia”
In his article in yesterday’s Daily Mail, Francis Wheen claims that our society is the fulfillment of 1970s paranoia. He also has a book out, called “Strange Days Indeed: The Golden Age of Paranoia.” But Wheen does our age a disservice in turning his theory of the 1970s into a theory of now.
Grayling depicts Wire fiction as fact
Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling has compared Britain to The Wire, a television series thick with violent crime, vehicle jacking and vandalism, rooting his claims in a British Crime Survey report that shows violent crime down 48%, vehicle related thefttest