Coalition consensus

In one of the more engaging Westminster recess stories, it has emerged that David Cameron is looking into changing Conservative Party rules on how proposals for a coalition agreement in 2015 would be put to backbenchers. Under ideas the Prime Minister has apparently...

Should non-violent criminals be in or out of jail?

Yesterday Professor Andrew Ashworth, the Vinerian professor of English law at Oxford University, published a pamphlet called What If Imprisonment Were Abolished for Property Offences? In the pamphlet, which has been published by the Howard League for Penal Reform and...