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 […]

I want to outline a truly interesting case not long ago determined in the Criminal Court of Appeal, Jenkins v R (2025) EWCA Crim 1657 because I would argue it tells us a lot in an easy-enough-to-follow case study about how the British criminal justice system deals with things where crime and mental disorder collide […]