On this day in 1987, IRA terrorists murdered 12 people in my home town who were attending a Remembrance Sunday service. Every day I work to help combat the horror and misery of violent extremism, I think of these people. #Enniskillen

I'm shocked and saddened to hear horrific news about a fatal shooting incident in Fermanagh where I was born. No details yet but it's a beautiful place where sudden, violent death should be behind it.

RT @EliotWilson2: Telling piece by my friend @NotThatBigIan in the @spectator on the inescapable physicality of policing. Farage is a saloo….

Staggering. Utter tactical stupidity then naked denial until found out. The full English of incompetence.

The only way things improve is through embarrassment. If that is the metric of progress we now must live with, life expectancy in Fife is set to rocket. #sandiepeggie.

Cogent article by @HCH_Hill on Reform prisons - catchy name - and not just because I'm quoted in it.

c. The athletic female officer might be worse at empathising with a DV victim that her fat male colleague. The point being good teams have blends. d. How we stop good cops leaving in droves, male or female, suffering daily moral injury doing the impossible shd be priority. 3/3.

a. If the only time we hear gender mentioned in this debate is high status equality talking points we aren't being honest. b. Some professions dealing with risk management of dangerous males like forensic psychology in prisons/CT are overwhelmingly female. Is this okay?.2/.

Reasons of space precluded some other points here to follow 1/.

Some big, strapping thoughts on physicality and policing.

Leadership.

Barbarians.

A now totally discredited and rigged attempt to introduce blasphemy laws by the back door. Rayner needs to kill this farcical and malign exercise. Anti Muslim hatred inciting/using violence is and should be a crime. Anything else is cynical, dangerous appeasement.

RT @HJoyceGender: Journalism's "one job" is to inform people. With several time constraints, often, and with only partial information. It's….

RT @RoryMaw: I disagree with Embery on many things but I'm going to take a wild guess that he's more in touch with southern working/lower-m….

RT @peaklass1: If you need 20 seconds of calm and peace today, fall into a little dream with me…. #peakdistrict

It was great to be at University of Staffs yesterday to see young people, often the first in their families to go to Uni like I was, celebrating their achievements. Proud of @StaffsUniJSS !.

What is the consequence of traducing these communities in Epping, Diss, elsewhere as merely bigoted? A disintegrated contract between government and governed. A vacuum exploited. We are in dangerous times.

These proposals will get traction with the public. They would have been sneeringly dismissed by the criminal justice commentariat 18 months ago. No more. People are fed up with criminal impunity and legitimate concerns about migration traduced as bigotry. This plan isn't perfect.

You can critique Reform's funding calculations but you better believe the announcements have emotional resonance with huge numbers of ordinary people who see their streets surrendered to low level crime and incivility. This is an inadequate response. Do better.

Every part of the criminal justice system is failing. Public confidence at record low levels. Much of what's needed won't be solved by senior bureaucrats protected from any accountability. What you put into the front line and the leadership needed is key.