| Gun gangs recruit eight-year-olds | 3:34 PM, Jun 27 2008 |
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Shaun Bailey asks the question "Where are the parents in all of this?" as part of Roger Waite's shocking Sunday Times article about gun gangs recruiting eight-year-olds. Read More |
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| Britain wakes up to 'knife culture' after 16 teen deaths in year so far | 1:01 PM, Jun 13 2008 |
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Violent killings of teenagers by their peers have spiked dramatically in London since the start of the year, claiming 16 lives and prompting urgent action to prevent the spread of "knife culture". In this article by AFP, Shaun Bailey gives his views on tackling this trend... Read More |
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| What the people who work with troubled teenagers think | 2:26 PM, Jun 06 2008 |
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The Evening Standard's David Cohen finds out what leading Londoners who work with troubled teenagers think about tackling the problems with knife crime... Read More |
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| A new breed of leaders can tackle knife culture | 2:23 PM, Jun 06 2008 |
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Lindsay Johns of The Evening Standard looks at the fight against knife crime, including Shaun Bailey's role working with Mayor Boris Johnson and Deputy Mayor Ray Lewis in leading that fight... Read More |
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| Right on! So, is it finally cool to be a Conservative? | 2:19 PM, Jun 06 2008 |
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Across the country, there are signs that the formerly flabby Tory movement has at least become socially acceptable, and is acquiring a cultural and political cachet among the under-40s, writes the Independent's Oliver Duff... Read More |
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| The new Tories: out of the blue | 2:24 PM, Apr 18 2008 |
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The Tories have succeeded in recruiting candidates from what would once have been thought of as enemy territory. But while the black security man, the woman boxer and the gay TV presenter may be closer to the people, are they still at arm's length from Team Cameron, asks Damian Thompson from the Daily Telegraph. Read More |
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| 'Army Cadets saved my life' | 7:34 AM, Apr 10 2008 |
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Ministers want to expand the Combined Cadets Force to more comprehensive schools, in a move backed by the Conservatives. In this article for the BBC News Magazine by Tom Geoghegan, Shaun Bailey explains how 15 years as a Cadet made him who he is today. Read More |
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| Pilloried over post | 7:34 AM, Apr 10 2008 |
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Shaun Bailey, the 36-year-old black community worker, is already making waves in his campaign to become Conservative MP for Hammersmith at the next general election, writes the Telegraph's Spy column... Read More |
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| Yes! Parenting classes for kids | 6:23 PM, Mar 20 2008 |
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Alice Miles of the Times writes: Every now and then you hear an idea that makes you sit up straight and think, that's it! It's so bleeding obvious - why didn't I think of it? It happened to me yesterday morning at 7.32am. And this was the idea: that schoolchildren as young as ten be given compulsory parentinglessons. The idea was presented by Hammersmith Conservative Parliamentary candidate Shaun Bailey, speaking on the Today programme. Read More |
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| Tory youth worker: Mentoring scheme nothing new | 6:17 PM, Mar 20 2008 |
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Plans to mentor troubled teenagers through a mandatory good-behaviour contract are nothing new, claims Shaun Bailey - as reported in an article published on politics.co.uk. Read More |
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| Shaun on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions | 8:22 AM, Feb 22 2008 |
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Shaun Bailey appeared on the panel of BBC Radio 4's Any Questions on Friday 15th February 2008. Read More |
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| Stop and search saves lives | 5:11 PM, Feb 12 2008 |
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Click here to read Shaun Bailey make the case for stop and search in The Sunday Times. Read More |
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| Is this a good way to cut youth crime in the capital? | 5:06 PM, Feb 12 2008 |
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"Changing the rules on stop and search is a good idea because too many people are carrying knives in the knowledge that they are unlikely to be caught," argues Shaun Bailey in this article, first published in the Evening Standard in January 2008. Read More |
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| Shaun Bailey: Inventing role models misses the point | 5:02 PM, Feb 12 2008 |
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Black teenagers won't be told who to look up to, least of all by government and the guilt-stricken white middle classes writes Shaun Bailey for The Independent. Click here to read the full article from August 2007. Read More |
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| Black and blue | 4:59 PM, Feb 12 2008 |
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As an inner-city youth worker, Shaun Bailey ticks all the 'liberal' boxes. So how come he's a prospective Tory MP, and David Cameron's man on the street? Click here to read Hugh Muir's report in The Guardian from May 2007. Read More |
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| Could Shaun Bailey represent the re-birth of the Tory party? | 4:57 PM, Feb 12 2008 |
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Click here to read Harriet Sergeant's report for the Daily Mail on Shaun Bailey's selection as Conservative Candidate for Hammersmith. Read More |
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| Interview with Shaun Bailey | 4:53 PM, Feb 12 2008 |
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Click here to read ConservativeHome's interview with Hammersmith Conservative Candidate Shaun Bailey, just before he was selected in March 2007. Read More |
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| Q & A with Shaun | 4:53 PM, Feb 12 2008 |
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| We must show our children what is right | 4:50 PM, Feb 12 2008 |
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Three young boys have were murdered in south London in the first two weeks of February 2007. This was tragic; should we be worried? In this article published in The Daily Telegraph, Shaun Bailey argues "of course we should." Read More |
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| The reason our streets are so violent | 4:50 PM, Feb 12 2008 |
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Click here to read this article written by Shaun Bailey for The Daily Telegraph in January 2006. Read More |
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| My battle with liberal Britain | 4:49 PM, Feb 12 2008 |
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Shaun Bailey was born on the west London estates that have been linked to investigations into the murder of WPC Sharon Beshenivsky. In this article for The Sunday Times, first published on 27th November 2005, he describes how pop culture and liberal politics have created a feral generation hooked on drugs, crime and violence. Read More |
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