DANNY SHAW

“Calamitous” is not a word that appears often in official reports. But in July 2018 it was the word that an influential Parliamentary...

What an awful year it’s been, a year most of us would rather forget - a year when the cracks in the criminal justice system were brutally...

Step aside Dangerous Dogs Act. It can no longer claim the title of most ill-thought through legislation of recent times. The 1991 Act,...

Here is a Cabinet Minister in command of his brief. His name is Robert Buckland, Justice Secretary and Lord Chancellor. For almost three...

Now we know why the Government is planning to spend £4 billion on new prisons. It's not, as I suggested in my previous post, because...

So, the Daily Telegraph prediction proved to be correct. In his Spending Review the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, has indeed announced 18,000...

The Chancellor of the Exchequer is to invest billions of pounds in new prisons. That was the gist of a key section of a Daily Telegraph...

In a display of apparent loyalty, Conservative MPs and Ministers have been Tweeting their backing for Priti Patel. “She’s hard working,...

“What about security?” Good question. It came from Yvette Cooper and related to the UK’s attempts to reach a deal with the EU before the...

The text messages became increasingly hostile. First, there was a warning to be “careful”. Then, I was accused of relying on “very...

Covid-19 is a fraudsters' windfall. Since the outbreak criminals have heartlessly exploited people’s health concerns and financial...

I expect there’ll be a few sighs of relief among the senior ranks of Durham Police at the news that Dominic Cummings is stepping down....

Burying bad news is the oldest government PR trick in the book. It involves releasing embarassing or damaging information on the day of a...

It’s the top story on the Home Office website. “Almost 6,000 officers join police as coronavirus enforcement steps up,” says the...

Fancy a job dealing with Brexit “emergencies”? The Government is quietly preparing for turbulence at the end of the transition period on...

I could fill pages and pages with the problems facing the criminal justice system. Prisoners locked in their cells for 23 hours a day; a...

So, this is it. My BBC days are over. But I still have a passionate interest in home affairs and justice so I will be writing blogs and...