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“Lock ’em up” not the prison solution

9th October 2023 By GerryBurke

What the papers said in the week ending 6 October 2023

In a week that was almost lost to columns and cartoons about the Conservative Party conference, it was a relief to get to Friday and Saturday, and especially to the letters.

Old Wulfrunian Rober Jenrick probably scooped the prize for the most crass intervention of the week – suggesting that the challenge of providing for old people should be met by families having more babies. Families should have more children to care for ageing UK population, minister says | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian

  • He has received a deluge of corrective comment: Jenrick’s perverse solution to plug our social care gap | Immigration and asylum | The Guardian
  • Provision for anyone in need of care is threatened by failure to invest: Tory-run Hampshire council says it faces ‘financial meltdown’ | Local government | The Guardian
  • The real cost of local authority budget cuts | Local government | The Guardian

Our conference study of the issues raised by the Archbishops: Care and Support Reimagined: A National Care Covenant for England  | The Archbishop of Canterbury      was well focussed.

Inequalities:

Are evident in the epidemiology of disease – but also in the provision of treatment: ‘Deeply concerning’ inequalities in NHS heart valve surgery, report finds | NHS | The Guardian

School uniforms are defended for their potential to keep us identifiably of the same group: School uniforms are a necessary leveller | Schools | The Guardian

Prisons:

Our overdependence on locking people away for a long punitive time is contrasted with the enlightened system in the Netherlands: UK could rent space in foreign jails to ease shortage of cells | Prisons and probation | The Guardian

  • Prison lessons from the Netherlands | Prisons and probation | The Guardian

Other matters:

On a fairly rocky road, Jimmy Carter is still showing the way: Jimmy Carter: tributes pour in as ex-president celebrates 99th birthday | Jimmy Carter | The Guardian

Politics and economy leave Paddington Bear unable to perform in Peru: Paddington in Peru films in Colombia – sparking row over legislation in Peru | Peru | The Guardian

Bumblebees seem to have mastered a martial art: Buff-tailed bumblebees drop from air ‘like bricks’ to repel hornet attacks | Bees | The Guardian

Pregnancy produces changes in the brain which will remain through the rest of life: Pregnancy leads to permanent rewiring of brain, study suggests | Pregnancy | The Guardian

Freedom of worship is threatened by commercial considerations on The Isle of Lewis: ‘Dangerous precedent’: fears over plans for Calanais stones access fee | Scotland | The Guardian

Informed and disciplined response to health challenges, are effective: New Zealand Covid response saved 20,000 lives, study says | New Zealand | The Guardian

Liverpool is following Greater Manchester to make buses a public service, again: Liverpool announces it will bring buses back under public control | Transport | The Guardian

Quite wonderfully, we learn that the felled sycamore tree of Hadrian’s Wall may rise again – if people are patient and let natural process have their way: The felled Sycamore Gap tree may rise again | Trees and forests | The Guardian

Environment:

Extremes are having effects. Some we appreciate:

First Thing: Global temperatures soared to new record in September | US news | The Guardian

‘Exceptional year’: Mont Blanc shrinks by another 2 metres | Mountains | The Guardian

Wet UK summer brings high hopes for spectacular autumn display | Autumn | The Guardian

David Jolley. Chair of Christians on Ageing, in a personal capacity.

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We use words all the time.  Words of welcome.  Words of wisdom.  Words of warmth.  Words of warning.  Words of wistfulness.  Our words are wasted if words are just words.   In the beginning was the Word.  And the Word was with God.  And the Word was God.  Through him all things came to be, not one thing had its being but through him.   The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. The Word made things happen.

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