The reality is that the offenders were deriving support and encouragement from being together with other offenders and offering comfort, support and encouragement to the other offenders around them. Perhaps too the sheer numbers involved may have led some of them to believe that they were untouchable – Lord Chief Justice Lord Judge, commenting on […]
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DIY GUIDE No. 5 Power to the People: Auto-Reduction
Winter is almost here. Sadly, the days of coin-operated electric meters that allowed for knife and string tricks and replacing coins with foreign shrapnel are long gone. So, while 20,000 plus people freeze to death in the UK each year, we can either spend all our money on heating and starve to death, or kill […]
Correspondence
The Art of Correspondence: Letter Writing After a short break, The Paper’s mailbox was full with letters from comrades and fellow travellers both near and far about what they got up to over the summer. — Dear Isabelle, You have asked us to tell you what’s been happening in Spain since 15 May. Well, we’ll […]
A Partners Guide to Prison
A Guide to Prison Survival This guide is a collaborative effort by the partners of some of those convicted in June 2011 at Blackfriars Crown Court, London. It can’t tell you everything, but our lives would have been a lot easier if we’d had a guide like this. Luckily there was a group of us […]
Showdown at the Sausage Factory
““A schoolmaster is a productive labourer when, in addition to belabouring the heads of his scholars, he works like a horse to enrich the school proprietor. That the latter has laid out his capital in a teaching factory, instead of in a sausage factory, does not alter the relation” As Karl Marx suggested in his […]