New NPCC approved guidance on prescribed medical cannabis instructs officers to treat people in possession of cannabis based products for medicinal use (CBPMs) as “patients first, suspects second”. That line…
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The Mental Health Act 2025 has finally received Royal Assent. On paper it should stop autistic people being detained in mental health hospitals just for being autistic. The question now…
British drinking culture hypocrisy is easy to spot when you compare what gets normalised to what gets moralised. Walk through a British city centre on a warm weekend and you’ll…
My community sentence ended on 26 December 2025. That date matters. From that point on, the Probation Service no longer had any power over my liberty, my licence, or my…
By Kieron JH The Ministry of Justice is now telling some Freedom of Information requesters to upload a scan of their passport and a utility bill before it will even…
My sentence ended at midnight. That’s the personal milestone. The public-interest issue is bigger and uglier: Probation is stretched past breaking point, so it’s doing what any overloaded system does.…
By Kieron JH, Founder, The Reasonable Adjustment A recent report from Newcastle Crown Court quoted Recorder Carl Gumsley as telling a defendant: “Let me make it clear, cannabis is illegal,…
In November 2025, a member of the public, Jamie Halliday, submitted a Freedom of Information request about the North East Mayor’s overseas trip to Japan. The request was made via…
By Kieron JH, The Reasonable Adjustment The North East Combined Authority (NECA) has just sent me a Subject Access Request response that weighs in at roughly 428 MB. Not a…
Autistic adults are not usually punished for being wrong. More often, we are punished for being right at the exact moment that accuracy becomes inconvenient for someone in power. If…