Nev is high up in the pecking order of menace and threat, and an important part of the gangster power structure to which a weak and corrupt management has effectively devolved control of the prison.
Steve Tappin, a management expert and author who coaches the chief executives of many large companies, considers the pros and cons of devolved control.
It is difficult to see how that shift of sovereignty north could be resisted - whether to maximum devolved control of taxes and welfare, or ultimately national secession.
Councils are also getting more devolved powers, including control over the adult education budget.
Scotland has a devolved government with control over some key policy areas including health care.
Last week the thinktank ResPublica suggested Manchester should be England's first truly devolved city, with greater control over its own finances in a plan dubbed "Devo Manc".
London MPs are the same as Scotland ones: they can vote on devolved matters they have no control over, Balls protests in vain.
He has signed 28 modest "city deals" with authorities to bring local control over areas from devolved transport funding to skills budgets, while – potentially – delivering extra money from the Treasury to Greater Manchester as the local economy grows.
But health and education stories, for example, emanating from London, almost always ignore the fact that Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own control over what happens in those devolved areas of responsibility.
It is run on a shoestring by four full-time employees, at a cost of just £100,000 a year, which is funded directly by the Welsh government (currently formed by Welsh Labour, which has control over health services thanks to devolved powers).
