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Sorry mate but that's just a total fantasy. Neither you nor I have any idea what the circumstances were but there is every chance that the officer "didn't do their job properly" not because they couldn't be bothered but because the inmate in question had won his trust. That's what happens...

Individual Retirement Account - American in origin but familiar to anyone old enough or sensible enough to learn about pensions. And Subject Matter Expert/Small or Medium (sized) Enterprise. If you don’t know any of these, well done on having a life.

Yeah, WWF was another, hence the legal dispute. IRA is another. And SME (in my previous profession at least).

My argument is that we have a culture of deflecting blame which actually lets people off the hook. It's very much in the interests of the Prison Service to blame a high-profile cock-up on 'the government' or Sunak or anyone else that isn't themselves. The problem with blaming the government for...

Again, we can blame the government for a lot of things but enabling a prisoner to escape under a truck ain't one of them. Unless (like a lot of people) you use the word government as a blanket word for all people in authority.

The Prison Service has cocked up here. They’re the ones who will be under pressure and feeling ‘embarrassed'. I’m not an apologist for this government - far from it - but I can’t see how Sunak's anything to do with it.

I presume that they’re allowed to if they volunteer but aren’t obliged to.

Why not? Remand prisoners usually have more privileges given that they’ve not yet been convicted of a crime.