Published by The i paper (3rd April, 2023) The murder of Olivia Pratt-Korbel shocked the country: a nine-year-old girl, shot in the chest by a drug dealer chasing […]
Health / Police / Policy
24 rape and 18 sex attack claims at hospital… but not a single prosecution
Published by The Daily Mail (24th March, 2023) Police investigated 24 reported rapes and 18 sexual assaults at a single psychiatric hospital over the past three years – […]
Drugs / Police / Policy
Britain’s criminal approach to drugs
Published by UnHerd (30th July, 2021) Our nation’s politicians have long been guilty of an inflated sense of exceptionalism. But there is one area in which Britain indisputably […]
Crime / Police / Policy
Children need help, not demonising
Published by The i paper (9th April, 2018) Sometimes the smallest things drive home the enormity. Amid the mound of flowers marking the spot where another teenager lost […]
Drugs / Police / Policy
It’s slow, overdue but underway: we’re on the path to drug reform
Published by UnHerd (23rd November, 2017) Grahame Morris has been called many things in his political career but he could never be accused of carpetbagging. He was born […]
Police / Policy / Politics
I know just the man to put the police’s house in order: Andrew Mitchell
Published in The Guardian (October 23rd, 2013) A few months ago David Davis told me that if the police did not come clean over the case of former […]
Health / Police / Policy / Politics / Technology
Why does no-one ever take the blame any more?
Published in The Daily Mail (February 13th, 2013) When Nick Clegg dropped into Hampshire to boost his party’s campaign in the crucial Eastleigh by-election, he spoke passionately about […]
Crime / Environment / Police / Policy
Philandering policemen, secret courts, and this insidious threat to our faith in justice
Published in The Daily Mail (November 20th, 2012) With his long hair, his sinewy body honed by daring feats of climbing, his stacks of ready money and his […]