My letter to The Guardian...

Ken Clarke is quite right about the broken justice system; I was in prison for crimes that never took place for three and a half years between 2001 and 2005. My Old Bailey trial started on 9/11 and when I questioned my barrister Ron Thwaites QC about the ability of the jury to concentrate on my trivial case at that time he answered "British Justice is not affected by minor global events". I felt like Alice in Wonderland.

In prison I quickly realised I was mixing with a far superior kind of morality than I had known previously (my friends in the media - I was a Sun columnist for ten years). I've been proven correct. I got to understand the criminal mentality pretty well.

Since serving my time in Her Majesty's Estate I've not been asked for my thoughts on the Criminal System by government or media. Whether I'm observant, intelligent or educated seems to matter less than considering or publishing the words of a Vile Pervert. I've been predicting prison riots since coming out. I just didn't expect them to be outside jail and not inside.

Broken Britain is getting worse and worse and, like the global state of our world, most of us simply don't want to know. Understandable from idiots and tabloids; hard to comprehend from intelligent people and decent broadsheets.

Ken Clarke will be ignored, of course. His suggestions refute simplistic slogan headline morality and that's all that matters to our superficial society and moronic leaders.

We could start by replacing the sex offenders register - a medieval form of branding male sexuality - with a violent offenders register (that would cover, of course, violent sex offenders).