The importance of remembering the Omagh bombing
On this day, 25 years ago, not long after the ink had dried on the Good Friday Agreement, a car…
What the stabbing of Ian Watkins says about our prisons
This weekend, armed assailants tortured a prisoner and held him hostage in HMP Wakefield for six hours, before specialist prison…
The Dartmoor appeal win is a victory against wealthy landowners
This evening, activists will gather under Haytor, Dartmoor’s iconic landmark rocks, to celebrate what feels like a rare victory for…
The truth about the Bibby Stockholm migrant barge
The ingloriously-named Bibby Stockholm has weighed anchor in Dorset’s Portland harbour to a storm of protest. The vessel is intended…
Will anyone be held accountable for the Zephaniah McLeod attack?
A report, just published by the NHS, is a stark 171-page indictment of our protective services. The investigation details the…
The Dartmoor prison hostage taking could have been far worse
Taking my son for a walk yesterday, we passed HMP Dartmoor, where I served as a prison governor. Unknown to…
Sinn Fein’s shameful commemoration of the IRA
A member of the UK Parliament is the keynote speaker at an event tomorrow commemorating ‘volunteers’ in South Armagh. The ceremony will take…
Violent extremists won’t spoil Joe Biden’s visit to Northern Ireland
What can violent extremists do to wreck Joe Biden’s first visit to Northern Ireland? The answer is precious little. The…
Northern Ireland’s flawed peace has still saved countless lives
A fortnight before the signing of the Belfast Agreement on Good Friday 1998, 25 years ago tomorrow, two republican terrorists…
The problem with the BBC’s Manchester bombing coverage
The BBC have reacted to the Manchester Arena bombing, carried out by an Islamist maniac, by providing us with a…
The chilling attack on a Northern Ireland police officer
An off-duty senior detective in Northern Ireland’s police service was ambushed last night by masked gunmen as he helped at…
The eradication of the victims of Enniskillen
In Northern Ireland, the dead are being eradicated. This week marks the 35th anniversary of the IRA bombing of a remembrance…
Northern Ireland’s future isn’t Catholic or Protestant
For the first time in Northern Ireland’s history, Catholics now outnumber Protestants. Census data on national identity and religious from…
Northern Ireland is descending back into sectarianism
Nearly 25 years after the Good Friday Agreement, the embers of sectarianism in Northern Ireland are still glowing bright. This…
Our prisons are woefully unprepared for Ali Harbi Ali
The Islamist terrorist Ali Harbi Ali will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the murder of Sir…
The dog catcher, the terrorist and the dark history of Sinn Fein
The dead in the ground and those who put them there in the name of ideology do not rest easily…
How did the Texas synagogue terrorist slip through the cracks?
Just how many databases was Malik Faisal Akram on? It turns out that the 44-year-old Briton – who was shot…
What’s it like spending Christmas behind bars?
It’s customary these days for people to complain that Covid restrictions mean everyday life ‘is like living in a prison.’…
Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and our broken child protection system
The official sentencing remarks on the short life and cruel death of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes begin with this trigger warning from…
We must do more to protect our MPs
Sir David Amess’s backstory tells you much about his commitment to constituency politics that led to his cruel murder yesterday.…
The problem with having a woke prison service
The new Justice Secretary Dominic Raab has said in the past that he wants prison to be ‘unpleasant.’ To that…
The case for isolating terrorists in prison is stronger than ever
Watching last night’s ITV report from inside two of Britain’s highest security jails was an odd experience for me. The…
Boris’s crime crackdown will be harder than he thinks
Can crime be beaten with a beaten down police force? The government certainly hopes so. Today, the Prime Minister launched…
The catalogue of failures that allowed Usman Khan to kill
The inquest into the murder of Saskia Jones and Jack Merritt by Islamist terrorist Usman Khan has revealed a collision…
Why Sinn Fein can’t really apologise for the IRA’s atrocities
What are we to make of Sinn Fein’s latest experiment with the language of regret when it comes to the…
