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I'm going to stand up for the rights of prison officers to work safely & protect national security. I don't care how inconvenient my views are or how overlooked I am as a result. The state and its agents have failed in a basic moral duty. That is worth more than gongs, trust me.
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It was good of Antonia Romeo to find the time to lecture #OurAndy on the importance and urgency of civil service reform. Here's an example of how disastrous the blob is at managing change that I suspect didn't make the cut in her speech.
I've absolutely avoided the tittle tattle around Romeo's previous conduct mainly because of my own experience of being a pushy outsider in CS. I've focused on aspects of her performance which have been effectively memory holed. 'Transforming Rehabilitation' is exhibit A 1/
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The only 'lever' being pulled here @MoJGovUK is on a trapdoor underneath victims rights. And not a peep from the criminal justice commentariat who campaigned hard for people like this to be released early, knowing probation was already on its knees.
telegraph.co.uk/gift/07041f08a…
telegraph.co.uk/gift/07041f08a…
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I've said it before, but come and spend a couple of hours with me in Manchester @rustyrockets You might get a different perspective.
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RT @OnThisDayPIRA: #OnThisDay in 1987 the IRA planned to bomb the Remembrance service in Tullyhommon on Fermanagh border with the Republic.…
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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ retweeted
In a searing critique, former prison governor Ian Acheson says prison overcrowding is being used to cover up entrenched administrative and political failures 🔐
politicshome.com/news/article/f…
politicshome.com/news/article/f…
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Don't write off the kidz. 👏
Tonight, I am the proudest Head in the country. After school today, a man collapsed at a train station. Adults stood by. Our students didn't. One rang 999 and, using first aid she'd learned in LIFE lessons, put him in the recovery position until paramedics took over. 🧵1/2
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Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ retweeted
Everyone says Russell Brand silenced his victims for years with legal threats.
Let's see those threats.
Lawyers will keep silencing victims and journalists in the shadows until we expose what they're doing.
Let's see those threats.
Lawyers will keep silencing victims and journalists in the shadows until we expose what they're doing.
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Apologies for typos as train v wobbly! Someone had also asked about female prison staff risk re: sexual boundary violations. That's a fair point given a rash of them recently - and his undoubted grooming skills. A good Governor would adjust supervision/alertness accordingly.
I'm being asked to do a lot of media on the sentencing of Russell Brand this morning. But am on train. If he gets custody, which is inevitable. Some observations on risk and his future in HMP. 1/
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I'm being asked to do a lot of media on the sentencing of Russell Brand this morning. But am on train. If he gets custody, which is inevitable. Some observations on risk and his future in HMP. 1/
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If he is held in a vulnerable prisoners unit or prison (our sex offender pop. is so high we have whole sex offender prisons he will be *relatively* safer. He has the right to ask for protection or for it to be imposed to preserve his safety and good order. 6/
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I'd expect some deepening of the florid behaviour - interest in religion etc to be manifest rather than withdrawal. That may or may not be in his best interests. But his future in custody will be miserable particularly since it turns people addicted to adulation into ghosts 7/
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*All* foreign offenders subject to deportation after sentence ought to be held in secure immigration removal centres prior to being removed. It's a basic expectation of citizens here including victims. But the usual smoke, mirrors, helplessness prevails.
thetimes.com/article/693aed…
thetimes.com/article/693aed…
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This is how you build a shared island, Ms McDonald.
It was an honour, as Taoiseach, to represent the Government and lay a wreath at the Remembrance Day ceremonies in Enniskillen.
A deeply moving event to remember those who have fallen in past wars, and remembering all those who lost their lives in the Enniskillen bombing atrocity
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For those who never came home, and those who never came home from remembering them.
#Enniskillen
#Enniskillen
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