Author: Umberto Schramm
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Should I reveal my conviction at job interviews and dates?
Short answer: Of course, you should be 100% honest and transparent from the startLonger answer: You should, but it depends on the circumstances When looking for work after release you are faced with the awkward situation that you have a massive gap in your CV that you need to explain somehow.Lying is a very bad…
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Review: MORE EVERYTHING FOREVER – Adam Becker
Silicon Valley’s quest to decide our future Although we might be afraid of death, most of us understand that the gift of immortality would not be a blessing, but a terrible curse. Because we know that what gives life meaning is the fact that it must come to an end. Time is precious because we…
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Review: HOW TO DEFEAT THE FAR RIGHT (Lessons from Hope Not Hate) – Nick Lowles
“Time and again, when given an option, people will usually choose hope over hate. It’s just that we need to give them that hope.” This is the central message of this book: That in many cases, people who end up supporting far- right parties are neither rabid racists, nor hold views as extreme as the…
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What would a Reform UK government mean for criminal justice?
With Reform riding high in the polls, it’s worth examining what a Farage-led government might actually mean in practice. In particular, readers of Inside Time will be interested in what the consequences would be for criminal justice and prisons. Although Reform likes to present itself as the party of change, in reality its proposed policies…
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If you want to understand the prison crisis, look at the Sycamore tree case
There are around 3 billion trees in Britain. Had the two most hated men in the country decided to fell any of 2,999,999,999 of them, they’d be going about their daily life today and we wouldn’t even know who they are. But because they decided to chop down a very specific tree, they are now…
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The environmental impact of AI
If you’re environmentally conscious there’s a good chance you use ChatGPT with a guilty conscience. Even though you don’t know the exact numbers, you instinctively feel that the large language models (LLMs such as Open AI’s ChatGPT and Anthropic’s Claude) must be energy intensive and therefore bad for the environment.And you’re not wrong, although it’s…
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I spent 3 years in prison for a horrible mistake – these are the 5 things I’ve learnt
When we think about criminal justice, we tend to identify with the victims. Never could we imagine that we’d end up being the perpetrator. Criminals are other people, not us. I had been working in the film industry for over ten years when I made the irresponsible and stupid decision to drive whilst being drunk…
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There’s only one way to solve the drug problem in prisons: offer purpose and structure
The newest annual report by the Prison Service shows that there were over 21,000 drug seizures in UK prisons in the year 2024 – one for every four prisoners.That is an extraordinary number, considering that large amounts of drugs are likely to remain undetected. It is also an increase of 44% compared to the year…
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My dad’s death & the end of America
One brilliant person in a small town in Germany and the richest country in the world both died in early 2025 Although it has never been as obvious as now, the USA has been on a downward trajectory for a long time. The moment when it all started going wrong can be pinpointed to Reagan’s…
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Words without waffle 