Crime is a Disease, and He's the Cure

Sajid Javid, Minister for Denunciation and Deportation to the dead-eyed warden of HM Prison UK, has an exciting new policy to announce at the approaching Conservative Party rah-and-blah. As always, the country is being menaced by lawless youth, whose evil urges are neither complicated nor deep-rooted enough to justify any precipitate panic measures such as providing proper education, accommodation or employment. Although it is certainly refreshing to see Her Majesty's Government going after people who may actually do something wrong one day, the radical new Javid initiative appears to be a cheap rehash of an initiative by his predecessor, the Clegg-pledging race-baiter Amber Rudd, which itself appears to have been a cheap rehash of the brilliantly successful Prevent strategy, which involves ordering teachers and social workers to act as front-line security personnel in the search for Muslim extremists aged six months or more. In Javid's words, the Conservatives will take a "public health approach" to Britain's junior viruses: as with the NHS, they'll make a lot of noise, shuffle some money around, and go on as before.