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Asylum appeals aren’t helping Labour close migrant hotels

Asylum appeals aren’t helping Labour close migrant hotels
18.03.2025 3

The Spectator

Danny Shaw

Crime / Why people kill

17.02.2025 7

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Danny Shaw

The police vetting system is a mess

12.02.2025 4

The Spectator

Danny Shaw

How the CCRC failed Andrew Malkinson

16.01.2025 8

The Spectator

Danny Shaw

Bobbies on the beat won’t stop the cyber crime wave

One morning last week, in the early hours, I received a puzzling text from my bank. ‘Did you use your debit card at 01.23 at Tenorshare.com?’ it...

15.12.2024 20

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Danny Shaw

Can the gargantuan court backlog be fixed?

Just like London buses, you wait ages for a criminal justice review – and then three come along at once. First came the announcement of a...

12.12.2024 4

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Labour should be wary of scrapping short prison sentences

What is the point of a short prison sentence? David Gauke will no doubt think carefully about that question now that he’s been confirmed as the...

22.10.2024 3

The Spectator

Danny Shaw

The problem at the heart of the Chris Kaba case

There are few moments more serious than when the state takes the life of a citizen, when a police officer kills someone in the line of duty. Such...

21.10.2024 2

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Danny Shaw

British policing needs a total rethink

If you started again with a clean slate, a blank sheet of paper, you would never design a system of policing like this.  It’s a system – in England...

24.09.2024 3

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Danny Shaw

Martin Hewitt is the right pick for ‘border tsar’

The ‘border tsar’ isn’t the official title for Martin Hewitt. The former police chief has been appointed to the new role of ‘Border Security...

16.09.2024 2

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Danny Shaw

Thousands of prisoners are about to be released early. Is probation ready?

I met Anthony by the gates of Thameside prison in south-east London. A skinny, gaunt-looking man in his 40s, he’d spent much of his adult life in...

09.09.2024 4

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Danny Shaw

Prison cells are now being rationed

The announcement from the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) is couched in bureaucratic language, but there is no disguising it. ‘Process activated to...

19.08.2024 2

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Danny Shaw

The riots have proved swift justice is possible

John O’Malley and William Nelson-Morgan; Adnan Ghaffour and Leanne Hodgson; Sameer Ali and Stacey Vint – some of the dozens of people who were...

14.08.2024 2

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Danny Shaw

How to stop the riots

For five days at the beginning of August 2011, it felt like we were on the brink of anarchy. Over the last few days, similar scenes have played out...

05.08.2024 20

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Danny Shaw