James Graham
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
James Graham is a playwright who uses his craft to explore and challenge societal norms, particularly around themes of justice and personal transformation. This interview reveals his ability to mobilize people around difficult conversations and inspire them to think differently about their relationships with others and themselves.
“So that is a perfect example of when I first went into custody. So young Offenders Institute. The notorious Glenn Harvard, which has now been knocked down and is a new super prison Foss Way, which I went and visited. When I went in there, they printed off the newspaper articles.”
“The easy answer shame and blame, shame and blame. But what people actually really want is people to be accountable and remorseful and to own up and to take responsibility. So that's the difference with this story that James is talking about.”
“Just say one thing before we move on from that debate is that the one thing that we're trying to do. So I just want to say to the audience, and politically-minded people, if you do want to support us, the Common Ground Justice Project, and our writer be her campaign to make restorative justice a legal right for all victims are crime, plea…”
“Yeah, there's a start here that I just wanted to bring in because it reinforces this point 54% of the public say people like them are powerless to change things in Britain, rising to 74% of reform UK supporters. And so I think it was non-voters were 66%. So reform voters were even higher, feel even more powerless than non-voters.”
The Rest Is Politics: Leading — 163. Prison Reform, Masculinity, and Restorative Justice (James Graham and Jacob Dunne)
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