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David Shipley

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Why does Lord Hermer think two-tier justice claims are disgusting?

Why does Lord Hermer think two-tier justice claims are disgusting?
27.06.2025 4

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Baroness Casey has not held back

Baroness Casey has not held back
16.06.2025 2

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Head of the prison officers’ union: we should halve the prison population

08.06.2025 10

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Head of the prison officers’ union: / We should halve the prison population

08.06.2025 30

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Illegal migration / Starmer’s plan to ‘smash the gangs’ isn’t serious

04.06.2025 20

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England now has a blasphemy law

02.06.2025 5

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Tommy Robinson and the truth about jail beards

31.05.2025 9

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Why do police accept criminal drug use?

30.05.2025 6

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Robert Jenrick is right to confront tube fare evaders

29.05.2025 10

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Decriminalising cannabis would be bad for black Londoners

28.05.2025 9

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My friend the people smuggler

26.05.2025 10

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Can Labour prevent the justice system from collapsing?

22.05.2025 10

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Banning pointed kitchen knives won’t make us safer

21.05.2025 10

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Lucy Connolly is the victim of a great injustice

20.05.2025 3

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The problem with Shabana Mahmood’s electronic tag roll-out

20.05.2025 3

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The legal aid hack is very worrying

19.05.2025 3

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We are losing control of our prisons

14.05.2025 3

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Peter Sullivan should never have been in prison

13.05.2025 4

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Why was Axel Rudakubana given a kettle?

10.05.2025 3

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Why are violent prisoners continuing to offend in jail?

14.04.2025 2

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How could the HMP Frankland attack happen?

13.04.2025 10

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Who will crack down on Britain’s corrupt prison governors?

09.04.2025 5

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What is Labour doing to fix the grooming gangs scandal?

09.04.2025 10

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What the Southport Inquiry needs to do

07.04.2025 10

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Are Islamist gangs in control of Britain’s most secure prison?

04.04.2025 3

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Unlocked was changing inmates’ lives. So why has Labour binned it?

04.04.2025 10

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The Sentencing Council has been humiliated

01.04.2025 7

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Why are ethnic minorities being prioritised for bail?

31.03.2025 5

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How Paddington took over the justice system

26.03.2025 6

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Prison bureaucracy is making inmates’ lives needlessly hard

25.03.2025 10

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Crime / Tommy Robinson doesn’t know how lucky he is

22.03.2025 10

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Tommy Robinson doesn’t know how lucky he is

21.03.2025 3

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Lawfare / The Sentencing Council’s tone-deaf response to ‘two-tier justice’ criticism

11.03.2025 20

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Could ethnic minority criminals soon find it easier to avoid jail?

06.03.2025 20

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Labour has until Easter to stop prisons running out of space

19.02.2025 3

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The truth about Britain’s overcrowded prisons

18.02.2025 10

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How Prevent failed David Amess

13.02.2025 5

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Why wasn’t the Southport killer stopped?

06.02.2025 6

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Why was this convicted murderer released to kill again?

31.01.2025 4

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Crime / Southport killer Axel Rudakubana deserves to die behind bars

23.01.2025 10

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Are we missing the point about the ‘Amazon killer’ Axel Rudakubana?

22.01.2025 4

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Rough justice / Prisons must prioritise mental health

21.01.2025 30

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Open prisons are the answer to our jail crisis

Britain should move thousands of inmates into low-security open prisons, according to David Gauke, the former Tory justice secretary, who is...

27.12.2024 4

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How can we stop football academy rejects ending up in prison?

‘The first team at Wormwood Scrubs is said to be better than QPR’s’. That line from Toby Young’s article from November has stuck with me....

27.12.2024 8

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Why are the police allowing trans officers to strip-search women?

What is the British Transport Police playing at? Biologically male officers identifying as female will be allowed to intimately search women so...

26.11.2024 10

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How corrupt are Britain’s prisons?

Two recently-released prisoners have lifted the lid on corruption and sexual harassment in Britain’s prisons. Beatrice Auty, who was imprisoned for...

15.11.2024 10

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It’s obvious why crime is up in Britain

Yesterday, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published its annual report on crime in England and Wales. This combines data on crimes...

25.10.2024 10

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More early releases won’t solve the prison crisis

September’s tranche of early releases did not go as smoothly as the government might have hoped. Footage of delighted prisoners celebrating outside...

22.10.2024 3

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Too many people are being recalled to prison

One of the new government’s first decisions was to announce that most prisoners would be released 40 per cent of the way through their sentence,...

21.10.2024 10

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Why are high-risk offenders set to be released early?

High-risk offenders could reportedly be released early from secure government-approved hostels. Shortly before before the election in July, the...

09.10.2024 2

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