The trouble with any early-release scheme, or parole, or just releases in general is there are always cases where the victims (and press and public) will object. Ironically, if we'd not ratchete… (View Post)

There have been similar reports in other, admittedly right-leaning, media of shock and anger at the expulsion of Starmer supporters. It may well be that Burnham has gone too far in casting out all of… (View Post)

We need to create new towns outside and away from London, with decent transport links, infrastructure and employers. We really do need to end over-centralisation not of political power but of economi… (View Post)

I can't see any of this happening. There's a general election due in Israel this autumn. Obsessing about Miliband being Jewish is, well, obsessive and not in a good way. Most people are not… (View Post)

It is not in itself devolution, though. Rather the opposite, it may be used as a reason for not devolving power now that the central authority has an outpost in Manchester. And why Manchester other t… (View Post)