It's down, I tell you. Today we have those Home Office annual Crime Stats. And the Big News is that CRIME IS DOWN.As the BBC has been headlining all day, police recorded crime is down 9% over the year. And that's without even needing to fall back on the murky British Crime Survey opinion poll (see previous blogs),Great.Except... in that case, why do we all think crime is going up - Prog Con spokesma...

Just as it is impossible to go out on the road without breaching some law, even going ten kilometres an hour over the limit in passing another car, so it is impossible not to lie. There are always going to be circumstances where it will happen. Even generally honest men or women will be forced into lies at some point, for example, when their child is accused of a crime; who would throw his child t...

Child “M” is an eight year old school child attending a primary school in Manchester . Child “M” was held in detention at Yarls Wood for 52 days this summer. There can be no justification for imprisoning an eight year old child. Child “M” cannot be named for legal reasons. Child “M” is here in the UK

Mr Howarth, in his latest column, which you can read here: says that driving through areas where it is access only is a victimless crime. Maybe so. But if that driver kills or injures a child, who is perhaps unwary because residents are used to little traffic in the road? Residents in Ramsbury Drive and Aldbourne Avenue, which he says are a convenient short cut between Wokingham Road and Wildernes...

Commenting on today’s crime figures, Liberal Democrat Shadow Home Secretary, Chris Huhne said: "The public has lost faith in the crime figures. The Government tells them crime is falling but a rising number of people - now two thirds - think it is getting worse. If crime and the fear of crime are to be tackled, Labour and the Tories must stop posturing on penalties and start focusing on what...

Home Office - This publication presents the most recent crime statistics from the British Crime Survey and police recorded crime.

Gordon Brown launches a new strategy targeting "new kinds" of crime such as knife crime, organised crime, e-crime and identity theft.

Plans for gender equality lessons for every child were criticised yesterday as a 'one-size-fits-all approach' to combat a social problem that only affects a minority of children.

I am very pleased that this country has decided to sign the UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child in full: "The child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth." U.N. Declaration of the Rights of the Child (1959) and Convention on the Rights of the Child (1990) Se also here.

Why is Gordon Brown still Prime Minister ? Both the BBC and The Times quote him, without seeming to notice or care about exactly what nonsense or deceit he was uttering:: Mr Brown told a crime conference in west London: "We face new kinds of crime - especially knife crime, organised crime, e-crime and identity theft BBC: Brown unveils anti-crime strategy The Times: