Immediately after the nocturnal UK veto and decision on a new non-EU Eurozone agreement in the early hours of 9 December, it was difficult to assess what it all meant when we had so...
The prime minister’s and his EU colleagues’ proclaimed purpose at the EU summit on Thursday was to save the euro and the eurozone. There was already broad agreement on how to achieve this. The...
An editorial in today’s Guardian and an accompanying column by Simon Jenkins state with admirable vigour the unanswerable case against the vicious system of Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection (IPPs). Both should be compulsory...
Why is the government persisting in policies that strangle demand in the economy instead of boosting it? Faced with a bad financial crisis, a paralytic economy and no growth, the coalition government’s immediate instincts...
Financial Times, November 5, 2011: Letters: Salmond’s ‘devo max’ option is a camouflage device From Sir Brian Barder. Sir, You are surely unnecessarily alarmed by the Scottish first minister’s “shrewd” decision to include “devo...
The Labour leadership is making a sad mistake in opposing the government’s decision to abolish IPPs (Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection), as I argued in a new blog post yesterday. The other sentencing changes...
At last the prime minister himself has signalled the firm intention “shortly” to end the cruel injustice of Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection (IPPs). David Hanson, Labour MP for Delyn, who was a minister...
My letter in today’s Guardian argues that rising demand for fuller self-government in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland points to full UK federation as a better culmination of devolution than the disintegration of our...
Indeterminate Sentences for Public Protection (IPPs), which keep thousands of people indefinitely in prison long after they have been punished for their offence, inflict needless misery and injustice on IPP prisoners and their families. ...
Labour’s shadow Justice Secretary, Sadiq Khan, has again attacked Ken Clarke’s humane, courageous and progressive programme of penal reforms designed to reduce our bloated prison population, improve prison conditions by enabling prisoners to work...