Ian Acheson
Professor Ian Acheson is a former prison Governor and internationally recognised expert on combating violent extremism. He was born and raised near the border in Northern Ireland. @NotThatBigIan
“Treatment” does not make child predators safe
People who abuse children must be kept away from children
Eternally complicit, hell-fired thugs
Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast transcends the identity strait jacket
Criminal stupidity
Sorting your “he” from your “ze” won’t improve places where one would hesitate to keep farm animals
What do Sinn Fein have to do to get a break?
The national media has turned a blind eye to Ulster republican delinquency
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The last ponies on the moor
Dartmoor Ponies are facing an extinction event, thanks to a government Quango
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Parade of defeats
Armenia is a democracy tearing itself apart over who gets to define the soul of a nation
Beauty from the ruins of war
Painting gave artists and their viewers a temporary way out of the grim wartime reality
On travellers and trail hunting
Left-wingers have bizarrely irrational double standards when it comes to protecting culture
The mistakes of marriage reform
New reforms to wedding laws are actually dangerously regressive
The EU is getting worse
Ursula von der Leyen’s left-wing managerial agenda is failing
Vandalising the law
Activists and politicians should respect the law even if they don’t like it
QAnon for centrist dads
Peter Chappell’s What If Reform Wins is less a political forecast than a Westminster panic attack in novel form
Reform’s constitutional quandary
What could Reform UK do about the House of Lords?
In partial defence of Steve Bray
You can’t blame the pro-EU irritant for making British politics undignified
