I just love how supporting the National Trust and the RNLI now makes you a dangerous radical.

Before Chris Grayling’s “Transforming Rehabilitation” Probation were NDPBs who operated with an important degree of independence from government, still accountable to ministers and parliament but with an independent voice - unlike civil servants.

“The medium-term problem, at least in England and Wales, is the structural craziness of having the prison system as part of the ministry of justice, a small department (also responsible for courts and probation) that has little or no political gravity in Whitehall.”
Couldn’t agree more.