“After the Ming vase campaign, we can’t have a Ming vase administration.” Keir Starmer needs to have the “tough discussions” and “do the difficult things” as PM sooner rather than later, say @PatrickKMaguire and Rachel Sylvester. 📻 shorturl.at/EHcox | Matt Chorley

This week’s announcement was just the start. Keir Starmer is planning much more radical prison reform - my Saturday essay for ⁦The Times and The Sunday Times⁩ thetimes.com/comment/column…

Government to introduce register of children not going to school including those being home-schooled - great to see another recommendation from The Times and The Sunday Times Education Commission being taken up! thetimes.com/article/38e666…

“Dragons represent the wild” - children’s author Cressida Cowell tells Alice Thomson and me how childhood holidays on a remote island inspired her best-selling books. New episode of Times Radio What I Wish I’d Known Speakers for Schools thetimes.com/podcasts/what-….

I have been hugely impressed by the quality, dedication and enthusiasm of Unlocked Graduates working in some of our most challenging prisons. Really sorry to hear the scheme, in future will not go ahead, at a time when the recruitment of high-quality officers is so important.

Unlocked Graduates, the brilliant charity which sends high flyers into jails as prison officers, is to close after failing to reach agreement with the Government - so short-sighted when there is a major recruitment and retention crisis thetimes.co.uk/article/gradua…

Rachel Sylvester Madness

Rachel Sylvester Madness

Fascinating thread on the Unlocked Graduates fiasco that could still be avoided if the new Labour government steps in to correct the mistakes of the last Conservative one

It would be a tragedy if Unlocked Graduates closes. We need to attract more talented and idealistic young people into the prison service. The work of rehabilitation is vital. I hope Natasha Porter OBE prevails

This is such a shame. We need more brilliant professionals to support some of our most vulnerable children, who need caring adults to lead happy lives free from crime. So much good has come from @UnlockedGrads: system improvement & inspiring more young people into public service.

Tech companies are “fuelling violence” and tougher laws are required - Deputy Chief Constable Maggie Blyth tells The Times and The Sunday Times Crime and Justice Commission thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…

“Elon Musk is accountable to no-one” - I spoke to Peter Kyle for Times Magazine The Times and The Sunday Times thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

Peter Kyle is the minister for science, innovation and technology. Not bad for a profound dyslexic who had to go back to school at 25 to get his first qualifications ⬇️ thetimes.com/uk/politics/ar…

On kindness, overcoming disadvantage, and dealing with the tech giants … wonderful interview with Peter Kyle by Rachel Sylvester. thetimes.com/article/780db4…

Here’s my interview with Rachel Sylvester on discovering personal empowerment, the excitement of government and how desperate I am to safely harness the power of science and technology for everyone’s benefit 👇 thetimes.com/article/780db4…

Great to see another The Times and The Sunday Times Education Commission recommendation adopted with school report cards replacing one word Ofsted judgements thetimes.com/uk/education/a…

Police officers take a week off a year because of poor mental health new figures show - great story by Matilda Davies as part of The Times and The Sunday Times Crime and Justice Commission thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…

“Risky” criminals will be among those released early from prison next week, chief inspector Charlie Taylor told the latest meeting of The Times and The Sunday Times Crime and Justice Commission as Matt Dathan and Daisy Eastlake report thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic…

Headteachers “are crying out for change, they are terrified of Ofsted”. Ruth Perry’s sister tells me the new ratings system would have saved her life thetimes.com/uk/education/a…