Digital Presence

Rather foolishly, I expected to be able to continue near-daily postings after my release. It has never happened; life has a nasty habit of getting in the way and my first year has been...emotional.

And I cannot deny that I have become rather taken with Twitter. But in fairness, the blog was always the core of everything and I must apologise for ignoring you guy's far too much for far too long. Whilst Twitter is excellent for many ways of communicating, it's limitations mean that I have more than once found myself embroiled in bitter arguments that were always too subtle to deal with except in a more measured, lengthy piece.

You can expect to see me back here far more often from  now, and I thank you all for your patience.

Prisoners Votes Judgement

The Supreme Court hands down a ruling tomorrow on the long-running prisoners votes case, following the victory by John Hirst in 2005 in the European Court of Human Rights.

This could be one of those crazy media days, depending on the news agenda!

I'm on BBC Breakfast debating the issue at 0740, Wednesday 15th. And who knows where else my fizzog may pop up during the day...?

Lifers Struggling Through the Process

The latest article by Ben in Inside Time, the UK prison newspaper:

http://www.insidetime.org/articleview.asp?a=1581&c=lifers_struggling_through_the_process