The minister did not say much with which I would take issue, but sooner or later the Scottish Executive will have to stop talking about reoffending and do something about it.The latest stage in the talkathon has been the publication of a pretty vacuous—even by the Scottish Executive's standards—consultation document, which is, intriguingly, called "Re:duce Re:habilitate Re:form—A Consultation on Reducing Reoffending in Scotland", which suggests that it might be time for a new offence of abuse of the English language. The online...