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...world that such things should be regarded as privileges which prisoners would have to earn. Receiving books from outside will no longer be allowed. Those core nostrums of Tory values – economy, security and punishment – have been invoked. How I wish that Mr Grayling had been present at the sessions last week at HMP Magilligan, a sprawling former barracks situated on...

...world for many years. Her research is as clear as can be in its conclusions – significant change doesn’t happen without quotas and, even then, progress in increasing women’s representation can be rolled back quickly. The same is seen in conventional workplaces. British business leaders have long resisted the imposition of quotas for executive boards, despite...

...world market. Even though the wheat is harvested within 50 miles of the original Burton Latimer mill, because it is priced in dollars it now takes more pounds to buy it in the UK. It could have been worse. If it were not for the fact that wheat prices on the global market, benchmarked on Chicago Wheat Futures, had not fallen in recent years, the price rise would have been...