The publication of the Rochdale child sex abuse report replaces the “culture of hopelessness” with the the more familiar culture of passing the buck (video)

Rochdale council, Greater Manchester Police and fifteen other agencies failed to protect the children of Rochdale from torture and rape and yet, as you can see in the report, the GMP continues to blame the abused.  GMP’s chief constable at the time …

Evidence not ideology: Professor Nutt’s award is polite up yours to UK government’s ideological policy making (video)

Professor David Nutt has been berated by government ministers, especially Alan Johnson, for publicly stating his evidence based opinion about the relative harms associated with different types of drugs. He was ultimately fired for standing his ground and suggesting that ministers …

“Mismanagement” and a “lack of transparency” – just an average day in coalition government

Hardly a week passes without another report of incompetent ministers mismanaging major governmental policy implementation.  Last time it was IDS’s £300m cock-up at the DWP and this week it’s Jeremy Hunt and £1.2bn of public funds (for the hard of counting …

Bryn Estyn, Oxford, Rochdale and now Cyril Smith but still no public inquiry (video)

“During his lifetime Cyril Smith was one of the UK’s best-known politicians. But a new investigation shows that security services held on to a file with evidence of the Liberal MP’s child abuse.” Video ©  Channel 4 /ITN  Two months …

£334m written-off or mismanaged by Iain Duncan Smith in Universal Credit “disaster”

Well it took longer than I expected (fully three years) but it has finally started to happen in earnest. After a few false starts, this government’s fakery and statistical misrepresentations have been unable to cover up the disastrous effects of …