Organisation: UK Home Office
Global citizens
Just lent my copy of P.J.O'Rourke's -Give War A Chance- to a friend, so decided to replace my lost copies of -Eat The Rich- and -Parliament of Whores-, to re-read them (and extract a few quotes for this site in the process). Went into the…
£9bn and doomed to fail.
The proposed split of the Home Office is fast approaching. In a department that has just taken its latest victim with John Reid announcing his retirement from front bench politics at the weekend (nothing to do with the fact the Brown would…
Money for nothing
The Home Office is right up there with the best at wasting our money. Its Secretary of State has even described it as "not fit for purpose". But that was before tough, no nonsense John Reid got his hands on it and sorted the whole shambles…
Troubled Home Office
Tony Blair said on the BBC's Politics Show yesterday that Britain's prisons are "full to bursting point" but suggested that the public should be relieved that dangerous prisoners are being locked up for longer. The PM also said that the…
Government-inflicted pain
Mark and Lezley Gibson and Marcus Davies were convicted on 15 December of distributing cannabis-laced chocolate bars to multiple sclerosis (MS) sufferers. They await sentencing on 26 January. Lezley is herself a MS-sufferer, who was told at…