More than 60,000 people have been arrested in the UK for "communications offences" over the past five years, according to a report to be published this week by the civil liberties campaign group Big Brother Watch. Of those arrested, 18,510 were charged and 12,292 convicted. Fewer than one in five were ultimately convicted.
Vicky Richter · 7 September 2026Muslims now make up nearly a fifth of the prison population in England and Wales, and the number of white converts behind bars is rising sharply. Drawing on first-hand testimony from inside the high-security estate, and on the government's own reviews, the Great British PAC examines how coercion, fear and the collapse of prison authority have turned jails into recruiting grounds, and sets out what must be done to stop it.
Vicky Richter · 29 August 2026The Justice Secretary has told police chiefs he is "confident" that Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole will be excluded from the early release scheme, after a million strong petition and relentless campaigning forced a Government rethink. The Great British PAC, which first revealed the pair were among 6,000 criminals eligible for release, has welcomed the move as "light at the end of the tunnel", but warns the domestic abuse loophole must not be ignored.
Vicky Richter · 27 August 2026Great British PAC says no to Labour’s quiet tolerance of six Left-wing London councils, Hackney, Haringey, Lambeth, Lewisham, Southwark and Waltham Forest, that have declared they will keep services “inclusive” in defiance of new EHRC statutory guidance on single-sex spaces. With the Supreme Court already clear that “sex” means biological sex, who is Labour really protecting?
Vicky Richter · 12 August 2026Prison recalls in England and Wales have hit a record 51,419, overtaking releases for the first time and threatening to consume the capacity created by Sir Andy Burnham's early release scheme, the probation watchdog has warned. With the estate at 87,342 inmates against a 89,800 ceiling, ministers face collapse by November unless the recall pipeline is fixed.
Vicky Richter · 10 August 2026There is a particular kind of political failure that cannot be laundered through spin. Andy Burnham told the country that no child sex abuser would benefit from Labour's early release scheme. A quiet clash between two statutes has now proved him wrong, and with it, unravelled the moral foundation of his premiership.
Vicky Richter · 6 August 2026Apple has opened a new front in its long-running confrontation with the British Government, filing a fresh legal complaint at the Investigatory Powers Tribunal over Home Office demands for access to encrypted iCloud back-ups belonging to UK customers. The move deepens a transatlantic dispute that has drawn in the White House and raised sharp questions about the future of digital privacy.
Vicky Richter · 5 August 2026Prime Minister Andy Burnham has approved a reformed early-release scheme that will free PC Andrew Harper's killers, Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole, before the end of 2026, while excluding rapists and child sexual offenders from the same accelerated timetable. His widow, Lissie Harper, has condemned the decision as an "utter betrayal."
Vicky Richter · 4 August 2026Nine British men, aged between 54 and 76, appeared at Newport Magistrates' Court on Friday to face a combined 41 historical sexual offence charges, many of them alleging the rape of children, in a case Gwent Police describe as one of the most significant group-based child sexual exploitation investigations ever mounted in south Wales. Despite the gravity of the allegations, which span an eleven-year period between 1985 and 1996 and involve eight female complainants who were children at the time, every single defendant walked free on bail, a decision now reigniting a fierce national debate over whether the judiciary is treating grooming gang suspects with appropriate severity.
Vicky Richter · 4 August 2026Britain’s medicines regulator called them an unacceptable safety risk. Its Health Secretary called their historic use a scandal. Now, on 1 August 2026, the state is preparing to give puberty blockers to children as young as 11 inside a clinical trial, with shopping vouchers as an incentive. This is how it happened, who allowed it, and what the evidence actually says.
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