Look who I bumped into at Laugharne (one of the most beautiful places in Wales, where Dylan Thomas lived on and off for two decades) - Torsten Bell

"Prevention, diversion and rehabilitation should be guiding principles at the heart of the criminal justice system." Natasha Finlayson 📢 Read our Chief Executive Natasha Finlayson's comment on the appointment of James Timpson as #PrisonsMinister: workingchance.org/latest/stateme…

Hopefully a useful explainer for those wondering why prisons are top of the agenda for a new government. We'll be exploring the solutions required in more detail very shortly!

Women's prisons could be shut and converted to house male inmates to ease overcrowding, reports the Mirror. This is a vital moment for this Labour govt to seize a step-change in our response to female offenders. Prison has proven time and again to NOT be a safe place for women,

Birmingham, the night of the count. Labour’s Jess Phillips is announced the winner on stage for Yardley. In an attempt to get a photo of the candidates on stage, am standing among a throng of men on the counting hall floor supporting the workers party candidate. They boo Jess,

We gotta stop telling “both sides” to tone down the political rhetoric Trump wasn’t attacked by a transgender member of MS-13 who snuck in w/the Mexican caravan to be radicalized by Black Lives Matter while majoring in CRT at Antifa University It was just another random,

For Afghan women to follow: Parasto Hakim is a must. She has been running underground schools for girls and shared important commentary on the crisis of gender apartheid in Afghanistan:

The Taliban's Minister of Education says that girls' schools are likely to remain closed permanently. After the initial ban, there was hope they might reopen, but that hope is now gone. They lied. The Taliban haven’t changed and remain the same fanatics they were.

People who send gifts to MPs and ministers could just send them to food banks and clothes banks instead.

The govt’s prisons agenda is partly a pragmatic necessity (the prisons are full). But also a confidence in going somewhat upstream of public opinion on a pragmatic/centrist liberalism. Probably reflects Starmer's personal/professional expertise (hence contrast with other issues)

This is hugely encouraging - positive intent and action to reduce the counter-productive imprisonment of women who need support, not punishment. Refreshing change after years of empty rhetoric and rearranging the deckchairs on the criminal justice system Titanic.

The EU is giving €10bn in aid to European countries hit by the recent floods. Every such disaster will cost billions. We will spend big on climate, either way. But it's far more effective and humane to spend the money on prevention than on endlessly picking up the pieces.

Left to die on the side of the road, terrified and in pain, like their life didn’t matter. SLOW DOWN stupid people and watch out for #wildlife. This could easily have been avoided 😡

98% of the adult cares homes closed to protect people from harm were run by for profit companies. And 90% of children's homes. Time to end this absurdity. Core public services should not be cash cows for private equity.

It’s been 1,116 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from attending school. Afghanistan remains the only country in the world where educating girls is illegal. #LetHerLearn

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Source: A Case for a Proper Ban on Hunting 2024

Now, I know what you're all thinking, but who hasn't accidentally done a Sieg Heil on their first day in government?

Rob Reiner was a lovely man. I spoke to him last night for over an hour. I always enjoyed his company. I met him at his Dad's in 1975. He was telling me about fiming at Stonehenge and his thoughts for the future. This is so awful. I shall miss him. A clever, talented and

INCIDENT: We are currently monitoring an unidentified flying sleigh entering NATO airspace. The track originates from the North Pole and is flying an erratic path🎅  No NATO jets have been scrambled.