A grotesque spectacle played out on the radio today with the unctuous Alan Johnston rambling on in his third form best about crime and it's causes. Hilarious if it wasn't so disgusting. He would be better off using his time  attending to the increasing numbers of serious criminals who are let out of prison early and then offend before their original release date.


An idea to bring some semblance of sanity to these early releases and parole in general  occurs.


1.The prisoner, guilty of a serious crime, appears before the  parole board.
2.The board assesses the prisoner, and makes a judgement on him being granted parole.
3.The prisoner, having been granted parole, commits a further serious crime in the time before his original sentence would have been completed.
4.The prisoner, charged and found guilty of this further offence, is sentenced.


  Here is the new bit.


5. Members of the parole board are required to serve a sentence themselves as a result of their over eager granting of parole.( There  are almost ALWAYS  unheard or ignored voices counselling against the granting of  parole in these cases).


I wonder if this might temper the seemingly endless urges of parole boards in trying to out do each other in granting ever more contentious parole? I look forward to an idea such as this being taken up shortly, after which I will shoot the pig flying around the roof of our house.


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Eurodoom.

Or delight, depending on how you look at it.  It looks to this casual observer that the Euro is now being propped up only by faith and a desperation not to face the truth.


Greece, which is the worst affected  of the smaller countries suffering under the Euro squeeze is almost now requiring monetary life support. If it defaults , and it will take what will amount to long term welfare payments from Germany to stop this, (some political price there you would have thought!) then one by one others will follow. This is a story to watch, but I won't be expecting hasty developments;  a lot of deeply entrenched, vested interests are at stake. 


A lot of news flying around suggesting that Liverpool might want to sign Kenwynne Jones. On Loan! Cheeky sods. I doubt this will happen, and hope not as well. We need him and Bent to (again) keep us up.