As you may have noticed nothing much works in the UK these days.    My last job in the public sector was part of the Child Support Agency rescue mission. An expensively assembled group brought together to try and fix the CSA, or at least get it off the front pages, including people from across… Read More HMRCSA | The collapse of public institutions

If you live in the UK you must have noticed a massive increase in homelessness, in particular homeless people with drink and drug problems.  Durham has a hardcore of about 20, sometimes the police and the council get them off the streets, but a few weeks later they are back again. Some are vulnerable and… Read More Mental Health and Homelessness | A kick in the teeth

The Home Secretary once again raised the spectre of Muslim grooming gangs, and announced another crackdown.  There are, in my view, problems with misogynistic attitudes in some parts of the Muslim community, but no more than you would find among socially conservative Hindus or Sikhs.    Muslims do make up a disproportionate number of people… Read More Muslim Grooming Gangs | Legalising Child Abuse