It was not clear whether he also mentioned the courts' myriad problems, including the fact that some chambers are wedged into tiny rooms with banging radiators and peeling paint.
But even if prisons are increasingly reserved for the most serious offenders, as the government and the judges intend, there is still a problem with banging up the dregs of society.
Herman van Rompuy, president of the European council, who was charged with banging heads together to find an alternative to the former Luxembourg prime minister, will meet Cameron and Nick Clegg in London on Monday.
The composer takes beauty where he finds it: at turns harsh, bright, unpredictable, with banging hammer blows against steel or shrill whistles, in all, a cityscape of energy in sound.
We identify with it on an interior level -- with aspects of sex, with glamour or scuffiness, with banging beats or layered productions that sound old in six months' time.
Your song about some girl who looks "good on the dance floor," which rhymes a reference to the Montagues and Capulets with "banging tunes and D.J. sets," leads to Internet fame, the fastest-selling debut in British history and, in 2006, instant, MySpace-amplified international stardom.
