Market Forces and Malpractice
James Meek: The Housing Crisis, 4 July 2024
“... the wrong moment to provoke him – he’d been buying booze for a friend. After he got out on licence in March, seven years in to a thirteen-year sentence, he went camping with his brother and had a little drink. The tag alerted his probation officer; since he didn’t do anything bad while he was tipsy, he wasn’t sent back to prison, but the threat of ... ”
