The UK Government has this week published a White Paper on Police Reform, “From local to national: a new model for policing.” Cards on the table: I’ve thought for years that we don’t need more restructuring and reform, we need a full Royal Commission on Policing and this White Paper gives us more reasons to […]

It has been announced recently, the government will look to change the law around the payment of Universal Credit to certain mental health patients in hospital and it’s causing a considerable debate, especially in psychiatry. First things first: this proposal (£) does not affect patients “sectioned” under the Mental Health Act 1983 (MHA) who have […]

It was always entirely necessary and appropriate for Craig Guildford to resign as Chief Constable of West Midlands Police following the Maccabi Tel Aviv debacle.  But this thing stopped being about football weeks ago – it became about his honesty,  and integrity as well as the operational competence of his police service and it was […]