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Ian Acheson

Ian Acheson

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Met crisis / Mark Rowley does not deserve to go

Why did Gideon Falter cross the road? Or try to? That is a question that went viral this weekend. A video emerged of Falter, who leads the Campaign...

yesterday 9

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Who will take responsibility for our appalling prisons?

We know our prison system is awash with drugs but just what are they smoking at the Ministry of Justice? A shocking story in the Times yesterday...

29.03.2024 10

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Only radical reform will save our overcrowded prisons

What should we do when there’s no cell space left in our disordered jails? The prison population figures published yesterday show a small drop...

22.03.2024 10

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Crackdown / Have the Tories finally woken up to the extremism problem?

Michael Gove has a reliable track record for sounding the alarm on ideological hatred, so are his latest proposals on redefining extremism a cure for...

14.03.2024 4

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Does France hold the key to cracking down on Islamist extremism?

Are we being ‘poisoned’ by extremism? The Prime Minister seems to think so. His speech on the steps of Downing Street following the Rochdale...

04.03.2024 10

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Why Prevent is still failing to tackle Islamist extremism

What is the core mission of the Government’s ‘Prevent’ strategy? When William Shawcross presented his review of our flagship counter extremism...

23.02.2024 3

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Should Brianna Ghey’s killers ever be released?

In the wicked murder of poor Brianna Ghey, it’s not hyperbole to say the Devil is in the details. Thousands of text messages sent between her two...

21.12.2023 3

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Keeping the peace: the politics of policing protest

Armistice Day is meant to be a moment of solemn national unity. Yet this year it is expected to coincide with the rather less harmonious ‘Million...

09.11.2023 3

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Why hasn’t the UK outlawed the IRGC?

As the scale and barbarity of the Hamas terrorist assault on Israel begins to unfold, to no-one’s surprise Iran has leant its formal support to the...

07.10.2023 7

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Who can blame armed police officers for handing back their guns?

The Metropolitan Police has, for now, staved off a crisis. The force says that enough armed officers have returned to work that they don’t need to...

25.09.2023 4

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Who’s really to blame for the Wandsworth jailbreak?

There’s fevered speculation about inside jobs or state actors involved in the HMP Wandsworth prison break by terror suspect Daniel Khalife. But as...

08.09.2023 4

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