Will Higham Articles

Cruel Yule

Christmas behind bars for most prisoners is a sad story of separation from families and turkey ‘a la twizzler’

William Higham enjoys Bob Woodward’s account of a capsizing White House

Another prison crisis is averted, but only leadership can solve the underlying problems in our criminal justice system

The growth in prison numbers under Labour has strengthened the cycle of crime and reoffending, warns William Higham

They say that if you can remember being a parliamentary researcher, you weren’t really a parliamentary researcher. The...

The prison population recently rose over 80,000 in England and Wales for the first time. There is every chance it will...

State of Denial: Bush at War, Part IIIBob WoodwardSimon & Schuster, 576pp, £18.99Bob Woodward made his name as the...

The fear of mysterious black helicopters is a signature issue for the American right. A Google search will bring up...

The outrage caused by Robert Kilroy Silk's article on Arab states illustrated nothing so much as how out of touch most...

There is a short circuit in the way we are talking about obesity. Why is the obesity epidemic being reported and...

Why should we muck about with the head of state role, when nothing is obviously broken? Put aside for a moment...

Weather patterns can be very local. Sometimes you can stand amidst a raging storm in London SW1, and then cross over...

When Douglas Alexander talks about refreshing democracy in Britain he talks of political ideas, visions and sustaining...

While watching the Iowa candidate debate with the Democrats Abroad in London, my neighbour whispers that it is the...

I have just checked. The domain www.nader2004.com is still for sale - thank God! Ralph Nader is still...

The Liberal Democrats have a problem. They have spent decades indicating to the left, when actually they need to...