Waking up to a fiscal nightmare
By Jon Silverman | 26 April 2010
If the Conservatives do win the election and form a government, an intriguing question arises. Who will be the next Home Secretary? The current shadow, ...read more
By Jon Silverman | 27 March 2010
In politics, chickens inevitably come home to roost. What some have called New Labour’s “penal addiction” – more than 3,000 new criminal offences created since ...read more
Cuts with criminal consequences
By Jon Silverman | 19 January 2010
“No one wants us to stop doing anything. That’s the big issue in policing. Tell us what we should stop doing.” The speaker is a ...read more
Intrusive, expensive, ineffective: that's Labour's surveillance state
By Chris Grayling MP | 9 November 2009
We all agree that it is a government’s job to keep us safe. However over the last decade we have witnessed increasingly arbitrary and authoritarian ...read more
Blunkett says SOCA must get real
By John O'Leary | 9 November 2009
The elite squad established to combat organised crime has become too preoccupied with intelligence-gathering and should get back to conventional policing, according to the man ...read more
Rocky start for the policing pledge
By Jon Silverman | 9 November 2009
At how many interview panels for the post of chief constable has the term “policing by consent” been uttered ? For a generation – since ...read more
Alcohol price hike may miss target
By Simon Moore | 9 November 2009
The level of alcohol consumption in the UK is not a problem. The problem is the harm that alcohol inflicts on drinkers, their families and ...read more
By Roísín Pope | 8 September 2009
Commitment
Immigrants will have to earn the right to stay: the new points-based system will be extended to probationary citizenship applications, controlling the ...read more
Jury still out for victims of crime
By Jon Silverman | 6 September 2009
Basking in the glow of New Labour’s re-election in 2001, Tony Blair declared that he was going to “put victims at the heart of the ...read more