Crime is only the worst example, but it is a paradigm for other Labour policy disasters. No one tells the voters that crime is falling: let them stay scared senseless.
Polly Toynbee
So what really works? Treatments in jail do some good, but it's mostly too late: finding a family and a job or just growing older make most prisoners eventually give up crime.
crime work family
There is all the difference in the world between teaching children about religion and handing them over to be taught by the religious.
religion
Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.
politics challenge happiness
Thresholds of pain, indignity and incapacity are entirely personal.
pain
disaster crime example
The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.
poverty
But the single overwhelming reason why jails are bursting is longer sentences given for more crimes.
crime
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