Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️

Alternative Ulsterman.
Dissident criminologist.
Terror tamer.
Visiting Prof Univ. Staffordshire
#KPSS.

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

I'm going to stand up for the rights of prison officers to work safely & protect national security. I don't care how inconvenient my views are or how overlooked I am as a result. The state and its agents have failed in a basic moral duty. That is worth more than gongs, trust me.

[Phil Craig @philmcraig]

And furious on behalf of talented decent writers like @RooneyRachel who got bullied, sidelined and cancelled by the in-crowd for writing a charming, positive book encouraging young children to love their own bodies....while the same set of people fawned over a collection of predatory male celebrities groping and grooming (and, it seems, sometimes assaulting and raping) their way around London medialand.

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

@Tom_Slater_ Chudleigh Co-op. Final answer.

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

We're a long way from Morcambe and Wise, aren't we?

[Charlie Flanagan @CharlieFlanagan]

Letter of the Day. @IrishTimes

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

Freedom is not free.
#armistice

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

A new idea for a country full of rights made meaningless by no responsibilities.

[Madeline Grant @Madz_Grant]

Stunning pettiness. They really do see landlords as the modern-day Kulak

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

It was good of Antonia Romeo to find the time to lecture #OurAndy on the importance and urgency of civil service reform. Here's an example of how disastrous the blob is at managing change that I suspect didn't make the cut in her speech.

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

I've absolutely avoided the tittle tattle around Romeo's previous conduct mainly because of my own experience of being a pushy outsider in CS. I've focused on aspects of her performance which have been effectively memory holed. 'Transforming Rehabilitation' is exhibit A 1/

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

The only 'lever' being pulled here @MoJGovUK is on a trapdoor underneath victims rights. And not a peep from the criminal justice commentariat who campaigned hard for people like this to be released early, knowing probation was already on its knees.

https://t.co/T74QGXOBkP

[Lucy Powell MP @LucyMPowell]

I've said it before, but come and spend a couple of hours with me in Manchester @rustyrockets You might get a different perspective.

[OnThisDayTheIRA @OnThisDayPIRA]

#OnThisDay in 1987 the IRA planned to bomb the Remembrance service in Tullyhommon on Fermanagh border with the Republic. The bomb was 4 times the size of the Enniskillen device. The parade was largely made up of children. It failed to go off & was made safe by bomb disposal #OTD

[PoliticsHome @politicshome]

In a searing critique, former prison governor Ian Acheson says prison overcrowding is being used to cover up entrenched administrative and political failures 🔐

https://t.co/tZVoU9m0ux

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

@MOB51 These are good points Teri. Justice means that now he has been convicted any other complainants will be encouraged to come forward and have those allegations tested in court.

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

I'm being asked to do a lot of media on the sentencing of Russell Brand this morning. But am on train. If he gets custody, which is inevitable. Some observations on risk and his future in HMP. 1/

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

@IanWest17 Well I raised that very risk when interviewed about it on @GBNEWS this morning. Nobody can use ignorance as a defence...

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

Apologies for typos as train v wobbly! Someone had also asked about female prison staff risk re: sexual boundary violations. That's a fair point given a rash of them recently - and his undoubted grooming skills. A good Governor would adjust supervision/alertness accordingly.

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

I'm being asked to do a lot of media on the sentencing of Russell Brand this morning. But am on train. If he gets custody, which is inevitable. Some observations on risk and his future in HMP. 1/

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

Don't write off the kidz. 👏

[Chris Passey FCCT @MrChrisPassey]

Tonight, I am the proudest Head in the country. After school today, a man collapsed at a train station. Adults stood by. Our students didn't. One rang 999 and, using first aid she'd learned in LIFE lessons, put him in the recovery position until paramedics took over. 🧵1/2

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

@IanWest17 I hope you're wrong, I fear you may be right.

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

@Areteofcandles Interesting point. This has actually been done.

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

@pokeymarley Cheers!

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

@hm_nopleasure There's no specific category of 'sex offender' as I'm sure you're aware. He could chose to go r45 or be segregated compulsorily in the interests of good order. But AFAIK the lifetime SHPO doesn't have any bearing here except to make it pretty unwise to elect to go on mains.

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

@EBGBeee Finally, people convicted of sexual offences have a much lower rate of offending than other offenders. But by the same token it is likely that they are as a group guilty of many more undisclosed/undiscovered offences. So a complex picture!

[Ian Acheson 🇬🇧☘️ @NotThatBigIan]

@EBGBeee Sex offenders as a proportion of prison population has gone from 10% to 22% in the last 16 years. AVE sentence lengths have increased too. But conviction rates are awful which suggests many more could be in prison then even elevated numbers.suggest. 2/