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A very cruel game begins in earnest on April Fool's day this year. I should have written about it sooner, but my excuse is a preoccupati...

The Easter Bank Holiday is nearly upon us and I seem to have 'gate fever'. I just can't find the energy or enthusiasm to write m...

In amongst the astounding news  that Home Secretary Theresa May is going to abolish the lamentable United Kingdom Border Agency due to woefu...

I do admire Russell Webster in his efforts at trying to keep the prospect of Payment by Results alive as a means of delivering Chris Graylin...

Chris Grayling, the Minister of Justice, has two big ideas. The first is Payment by Results and we all know what a roaring success that'...

It's been gratifying to see widespread condemnation of Chris Grayling's recent gagging instruction  to all probation staff and if an...

We have to remember that it is only a story and not real life, so reality need not get too much in the way. But it did tickle me to see  tha...

As probation chiefs begin their two-day conference in Birmingham, they have much to mull over, not least whether collectively they can agree...

I suspect like a lot of people, I'm still coming to terms with the news that Inspector Gadget has called it a day  on his blog. His inci...

I'ts becoming increasingly clear that the government has lost the argument in relation to privatising most of the probation service by m...