Mark Andrews takes a wry look at the news and events of the past week

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From next month, sentencing judges will be advised to consider treating convicted criminals differently, depending on their ethnicity, sex, or sexual orientation.

So blatantly iniquitous is this latest guidance, that even Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood - hardly a pearl-clutching, reactionary culture warrior - was said to be 'incandescent' when she heard about it. She has written to the Sentencing Council, the body which drafted this ridiculous advice, asking them to withdraw it.

This all begs the question of who are the people who come up with such perverse thinking. And looking at the list of the great and the good who sit on the Sentencing Council, there was one name that stood out: a Justice of the Peace, called Jo King.

Yes, Jo King. You........

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