Erwin James, who has died in an accident aged 66, stood up publicly for those – like him – who wanted to change their lives in prison and on release. As the first serving prisoner in Britain to write a regular newspaper column in a national newspaper (The Guardian) and, once out, as a speaker, campaigner, author and latterly editor of Inside Time, the national newspaper for prisoners, he both made and embodied a compelling case that everyone deserves a second chance.
decided, no. if the point of the journalism is to expose these problems so that the country does change in a way she always wanted it to, then shejust has to do it and. but there s lots to unpick here, because, as she went on with her work, and she expanded it not only did she work for the independent newspaper as a columnist, but she, over time, developed her own blog. i mean, she was very savvy about the rise of social media, so she could say things in the blog that were even more outspoken than she could in a newspaper column, and hundreds of thousands of hits per week would be registered on her blog, which, again, not to belabour the point, but in a tiny island, was quite something. her voice was really, really powerful. did she not ever, with you, and her other two sons and your father, her husband, did she not sit around the table and say, i don t know whether we can continue to live like this because i am getting threats. you are having to live very difficult lives because
Thousands upon thousands of world citizens are walking to the United States-Mexican border. There is nothing for them here but grief, stupidity, hate and a President who can’t put a