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I notice that the London Probation Trust has teamed up with UserVoice in order to set up four pilot Service User Councils as part of the Of...

As we all know, a week is a long time in politics and the fallout from the riots seem set to erode yet further many of the laudable aims emb...

This weekend I found myself having an unusually long think. In this case it was triggered by the news that yet another burglar had been kill...

The ramifications of the riots continue and I can't help noticing how many politicians have been talking about making those convicted of...

Although often ridiculed - remember the 'quiet man speaks out' speech? - I've never-the-less had an increasing degree of respec...

Yes going away is great - but so is the coming home and to a surprise surge in readers due to a recent plug by the American Association of ...

I'm conscious that this piece of self-indulgence will shortly reach it's first anniversary and being somewhat sentimental, I can...

Regular readers will be aware that I have previously discussed at some length the disgraceful fall in standard of computer-generated Pre-Sen...

I'm probably being a little presumptuous, but regular readers might have wondered why the silence of late, particularly given the vast q...

Having seemingly recovered from the ignominy of the expenses scandal and bruising from the universal aprobrium heaped upon them as a result,...