Time for tasers
PRISONS have become danger zones for the brave men and women who guard Britain’s most violent offenders.
Serious questions must be asked about how Southport killer Axel Rudakubana was able to throw boiling water over a warder at London’s Belmarsh jail.
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It is less than a month since two prison officers suffered life-threatening injuries — and a third was badly hurt — when terrorist Hashem Abedi attacked staff with a makeshift knife and hot melted butter at HMP Frankland, Co Durham.
Staff at high-security jails put their lives on the line every day to keep the public safe by ensuring the most evil and sadistic offenders stay behind bars.
We owe it to them to ensure they return home safely to their families each night.
Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood must order an urgent review to protect staff in the light of these failures.
It’s time to arm prison officers in high-security jails with taser guns.
Remain out of it
BEFORE the ink was dry on our export deal with America, up pops the bungling Bank of England boss to demand we forge one with the EU.
Andrew Bailey knows full well that if we get too close to Brussels — by rejoining the customs union, for example — we’d have to tear up the newly-signed deal with Donald Trump, not to mention agreements with 39 other countries and trade blocks.
He insists he does not take a view on Brexit but this is the second time in six months he’s dipped his oar in to influence our new course outside the EU.
Struggling families are already paying the price for Mr Bailey being slow off the mark to raise interest rates when inflation surged.
He should stop meddling in Britain’s global future and stick to the day job of keeping the nation’s finances stable.
Sinflation bites
BRITAIN’S favourite bakery chain is in the grip of a costly crime wave and our police are nowhere to be seen.
Every day, brazen shoplifters stroll into branches of Greggs and help themselves to a free lunch.
But it’s not free for the rest of us, as the chain has now had to jack up prices.
Theft costs high street traders £2billion a year, while woke police chiefs seem to spend time investigating “non-crime hate incidents” and offensive social media posts.
Earlier this year, six uniformed officers were sent to arrest a couple who criticised their daughter’s school on WhatsApp and a newspaper columnist was grilled about a Twitter comment made and deleted a year earlier.
Law-abiding citizens are sick of being hit in the pocket twice – to fund free lunches for thieves and wages for invisible cops.