Frances’s Newsletter

Women have to speak fast

Women speak faster in media interviews for fear of being interrupted

Jan 23 • Frances Crook

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MPs and Lords and foreign influence and money

All party groups get funding from dubious sources

Jan 3 • Frances Crook

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December 2025

Some New Year’s Resolutions for the government: 1. Abolish the Youth Justice service

The Youth Justice service oversaw an explosion in the criminalisation and imprisonment of children

Dec 30, 2025 • Frances Crook

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Children are abused in prisons

Children have always suffered physical and sexual abuse in penal custody

Dec 3, 2025 • Frances Crook

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November 2025

Criticising Shabana Mahmood gives me no pleasure

Far from dampening anger, she is exploding it

Nov 17, 2025 • Frances Crook

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Police and Crime Commissioners to be abolished

It’s about time this layer of bureaucracy that lacked legitimacy is got rid of

Nov 13, 2025 • Frances Crook

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Labour must be bold on prison reform

Take money from prisons to give to local people

Nov 7, 2025 • Frances Crook

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October 2025

I can’t spoil my ballot paper

On-line voting means you cannot spoil your ballot paper

Oct 13, 2025 • Frances Crook

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September 2025

Jobs I did as a student

A laundry, shoe shop, head hunter and Carnaby Street…..

Sep 20, 2025 • Frances Crook

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Poverty is embedded in food banks

Food banks are a shameful sign that poverty is accepted

Sep 18, 2025 • Frances Crook

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August 2025

Labour gets punitive again

Plans for prisons and community sentences are misguided

Aug 28, 2025 • Frances Crook

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Policing racism and high profile cases

Identifying the ethnicity of ‘high profile’ suspects is pandering to racism

Aug 16, 2025 • Frances Crook

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