New readers start here

There are a bumper set of local elections across England on 6^th May. Some people are finding their way to this site as a result of the fact that I am defending my county council seat in Oxfordshire and also standing as the Lib Dem candidate for Police and Crime Commissioner in Thames Valley – as I did in the previous two elections for this post.

To help those reaching the site as a result of wanting to know more about my published views on this blog, I have brought together some links to posts over the years. Some are more personal than others.

Over time views may also alter as circumstances alter. Thus schools becoming academies is now a different matter to the situation when this blog first started.

Any way here are links to some posts you might want to read first:

https://johnohowson.wordpress.com/2019/03/07/knife-crime-must-be-tackled/

https://johnohowson.wordpress.com/2014/05/09/knife-crime-do-we-need-mandatory-sentences/

https://johnohowson.wordpress.com/2019/08/11/rods-poles-and-perches/

https://johnohowson.wordpress.com/2019/03/11/support-youth-justice/

https://johnohowson.wordpress.com/2018/11/14/isolation-poor-use-of-funding/

https://johnohowson.wordpress.com/2018/05/03/upturn-in-average-number-of-young-people-in-custody/

https://johnohowson.wordpress.com/2014/06/22/supreme-court-one-parliament-a-half/

https://johnohowson.wordpress.com/2021/01/23/time-for-jacobs-law/

https://johnohowson.wordpress.com/2018/11/23/memories/

https://johnohowson.wordpress.com/2019/04/05/a-parent-in-prison-is-not-a-crime/

https://johnohowson.wordpress.com/2018/08/28/crime-and-a-lack-of-learning/