Amid all the noise about the UK’s ‘two-tier’ justice system, there is silence on class | Kenan Malik

New sentencing guidelines for England and Wales address gender and ethnicity but ignore povertyAs so often in such debates, the controversy over new guidelines for courts from the Sentencing Council for England and Wales has obscured as much as it has illuminated. Critics have condemned them as presaging a “two-tier” justice system, a jibe aimed for months at Labour and Keir Starmer, but which has now crossed the parliamentary aisle to be wielded by Labour ministers, too. The lord ch