Reading Time: < 1 minute Well it doesn’t seem like they can. If my interpretation of today’s news is correct HM Inspectors have absolutely slated G4S’ running of HMP Oakwood. It’s a nice, modern building, not a Pentonville or a Brixton, but is still a shambles. Attention-grabbing headlines include “It’s easier to get drugs than soap”, “Prisoners could not get […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes Well maybe not quite 101, but I’m sure you get the idea. When you reach my ripe old age the grey matter isn’t as sharp and efficient as it once was, so I find it helpfulo to write things down so I don’t forget. Here’s my list of things I don’t want to forget, please
Reading Time: 5 minutes Blimey, three blogs in three days, my quill needs a rest. I am grateful to my old sparring partner @DrinkyMcEyeball for bringing this matter from July to my attention. I don’t know how I missed it, this juicy news titbit must have been buried beneath something far more mundane. G4$, who are they? As far
Reading Time: 2 minutes Can this really be true? Has he gone totally stark raving bonkers (OK so maybe he has). I read today in the #FailOnline that the Government are considering outsourcing £31 million worth of Protection duties to a company/companies such as G4S. What the hell does he think he’s playing at? The fact that he’s even
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Reading Time: 3 minutes Is it just me who thinks that Peers of the Realm should be above reproach? Should they not lead lives, personal and professional, devoid of controversy, ethical and moral. Upright citizens, a role model to us all? Isn’t that how it should be? Except for Lord Prescott who is a roll model. And then I
Reading Time: 6 minutes Nope, I haven’t gone mad and started promoting parliamentary committees. But I did get to wondering after Saturday’s blog, “I Am Disturbed“, about the thorny subject of ethics in the Houses of Parliament. We probably first started to doubt the ethics of our politicians when the now famous expenses scandal excrement hit the air conditioning
Reading Time: 3 minutes Two pieces of news have grabbed my attention this morning and they both seem to involve our revered government. Firstly the news that David Cameron has apparently ‘forgiven’ (insert “felt sorry for” if you prefer) Andrew Mitchell and offered him a job as a European Commissioner. Mr Cameron and wife Samantha had lunch at the
Reading Time: 2 minutes THE firm at the centre of the Olympics security shambles recently lost its contract to run a jail in Yorkshire and failed to win any further prison contracts it was bidding for, the Ministry of Justice has said. G4S, which failed to provide enough guards for the London 2012 games, will stop running the Wolds
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Reading Time: < 1 minute Hi there, we don’t actually know each other but I know you’ve read at least some of my blogs. I know these things because I get the logs and I actually read them. So I feel like we’re almost friends now. You’re in good company, some of my blogs have been read by A4e, G4S,
Reading Time: 2 minutes In a move that I confess to having missed G4S bought up part of a company called Guidance Monitoring about 18 months ago. Under normal circumstances I wouldn’t worry about it, and that’s probably why I missed it. Who are/were Guidance Monitoring? They are a company formed in the early 1990s by Malcolm Roberts and
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