15-20% returning to prison is pretty good. The best global nations for low recidivism though are Singapore and Norway, the former very low spend, the latter very high spend as a percentage of gdp. So… (View Post)

Prison works in the sense of when you are locked up you are not committing crimes. Though yes that needs to be combined with effective community orders for lower level offenders and rehabilitation in… (View Post)

Because of that over confidence from Dave we have Brexit, he thought after the 2014 Scottish referendum scraped a Union win he would easily win another referendum for Remain and put Farage back in hi… (View Post)

Not entirely, Stride is on the Cameroon Sunakite wing of the party so unlikely to have excessive negatives for a Tory. As a fiscal conservative he might win back a few who voted for Rishi, have since… (View Post)

My late grandparents used to have one of the Ponsonby descendants as a neighbour, they were quite a family (View Post)