For the first time in weeks I have no work this weekend, so I wanted to catch up with a couple of topics that I had written about previously, and which were finding their way back into the news. For those who follow such things my old pal the Jim Reaper has left Whitehall and… Read More Hunt vs Hawking. Both are wrong, and things are worse than we thought

  I found needles and ampules in my neighbourhood this week.   I live very near a big hospital, which means that it was more likely to be medical rather than heroin, but I rang the Police nonetheless, being a concerned citizen. For those who don’t know Durham runs the most liberal drugs regime in… Read More How close are we to legalising drugs? Are the Tories more liberal on drugs than Labour? Will Boris Johnson be remembered as the man who decriminalised cocaine?