Kathy Gyngell
Kathy Gyngell is a Research Fellow at the CPS and Chair of the Centre's Prisons and Addiction Forum
Written by Kathy Gyngell Friday, 27 August 2010 10:10
The NTA’s poor and unfair practices mean it cannot be trusted. This £19 million a year public health authority should be wound down now, not in two years time.
It is bad enough when we find...
Written by Kathy Gyngell Tuesday, 17 August 2010 13:47
It is hard to understand why Sir Ian Gilmore has chosen, right at the end of his worthy career, to ‘come out’ on behalf of the decriminalisation of drugs. Even the most intelligent and thoughtful of men can get it wrong sometimes. He certainly has in this case.
Read more: We already have decriminalised – that’s the problem
Written by Kathy Gyngell Wednesday, 11 August 2010 08:44
By Kathy Gyngell, chair of the Centre for Policy Studies' Addictions working group and Deirdre Boyd, CEO of the Addiction Recovery FoundationWith the threat of abolition hanging over its head, the National Treatment Agency has cleverly extended its longevity by promising to mend its ways. It will, it announced on Friday, use the final two years of its now-extended life to change the policy it has promulgated over the past nine years.
Prime Minster...
Read more: Can these leopards change their spots?: Response to the NTA business plan 2010/2011
Written by Kathy Gyngell Friday, 18 June 2010 14:21
Last Sunday BBC Radio Four's Broadcasting House invited 'thinking out of the box' suggestions for public expenditure cuts. They gave air time to Danny Kushlick's economic case for legalising drugs.
But his speculation that £10 billion per annum could be saved is gamble that I suspect no sound minded bookie would set the odds for nor any gambler put his money on.
Certainly not after they had examined the assumptions and...
Written by Kathy Gyngell Tuesday, 08 June 2010 14:04
Was anyone else more than a little disturbed by Professor Martin Rees' call in his Reith Lecture for public policy choices "to be leveraged by 'scientific citizens' - scientists from all fields of expertise - engaging, from all political perspectives, with the media, and with a public attuned to the scope and limit of science", (as defined by scientists)?
His idea of a citizenship of scientific gatekeepers (21st century versions of...
Read more: The Scientific Citizen: The danger of stamping brand 'trust' on science
