Day: 8 June 2011

The answer is, if the crisis is acute, yes very well. This positive answer to a simple question becomes a lot less positive the more routine the diagnosis or treatment required. This is not because people are incompetent. It is because they are being asked to run an infinitely variable facility within the strictures of a rigidly programmed service. I […]

Ken Clarke’s proposals made sense. Among those trying to deal with the problems of the largest prison population in Europe, the cost to the taxpayer of unnecessary trials, the trauma of victims and many other issues, his proposals had wide support. A media centred drama then broke out following a misunderstood remark. Now, following the […]