Serious violence is rising, and there’s little more that police can do to stop it. Of course, the real culprits are cutbacks to the nation’s social protection systems.
Birmingham Prison has been taken over by the Ministry of Justice after inspectors said it had collapsed into a “state of crisis”.
The recent controversy over train timetabling and the returning of East Coast to public ownership has thrown the entire concept of privatisation into doubt, with the majority of Britons now in favour of the renationalisation of a variety of industries from rail to water companies.
Labour leadership contender Owen Smith has accused the government of implementing “a secret plan to privatise the NHS”.
The UK government has begun seeking buyers its 40% stake in the cross-Channel train operator Eurostar.