What? I asked myself. Did I really hear that?
I’d been listening to the excellent Paddy O Gorman on the radio. He does this thing where he talks to people waiting at welfare offices and outside prisons. People who are a bit vulnerable. A bit marginalised.
Well, this evening, he was in [...]

I see the new Anti-social Behaviour Orders are ready to roll. According to today’s papers, the adult version will be available for the new year, with children’s asbos following in a couple of months. I see also, however, that the Guards won’t be ready to implement it because their Fancy-Dan computer system isn’t [...]