Cameron Giving his Speeh at the Policy Exchange, 8th of February David Cameron's Prison Reform Speech appears to show his liberal side. But look closer and he is advocating a new form of punishment, a kind of perpetual parole. Cameron the Liberal! David Cameron’s recent prisons speech on February 8 th left many left-wing commentators wrong-footed. Touted as the first proposal of full-scale prison reform for a generation, Cameron came over at the podium all concerned, empathetic, and sociological—although he retained his rather smug and rubicund natural demeanour throughout. We lefties didn’t know what to make of it all really. The Guardian’s John Crace, for example, had to invent a whole new malady, the Odysseus complex , to describe the way the Cameron keeps being blown of course. The problem was not so much the tone of the speech, Cameron only has one tone, slightly exasperated verging on tetchy then suddenly emollient, but the content of which, surprisingl