We should start by recognising that current public services are not quite fit for purpose, and that cuts afford us an opportunity.
He said Britain should leave the EU if Britain’s relationship with it did not change. And since Cameron’s negotiation hasn’t changed that relationship, he is being true to his word.
We still haven’t cracked effective rehabilitation either in the community or behind bars. If the Government makes the latter more effective, we’ll imprison more people.
If required, Britain’s removal, temporarily, from the European Court of Human Rights when forces are sent into conflict may be necessary.
Allowing Kenyan courts to try British troops for crimes committed when off duty has wide ramifications.
The injustice of the Durham rape allegation. Mundell comes out. And: who will help me to make my mind up about Europe?
How else can the systematic rape and murder of Christians possibly be described?
Though the news makes it even less likely that Britain will quit the ECHR – not that such a move is on the cards anyway.
The Justice Secretary is going back on the policies introduced by his predecessor – and, indeed, on years of lazy political orthodoxy.
The BBC Director General should act on his agreement to begin broadcasting into the country. The first programme could be a documentary about King John.
Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it’s difficult, but sometimes, it’s simply wrong for the people of one country – or many – to sit by and watch those of another suffer.
The number in Britain today who are being denied contact is approaching the one million mark. One in fourteen grandparents are in this position.
The investigations into child abuse and the Iraq War both have the same failing.
A recent UN report documented 119 incidents by the coalition forces, including attacks on weddings, mosques, ports and markets.