Crime

Should free speech campaigners hope Andrew Gwynne is prosecuted?

15 February 2025 9:00 am

David McKelvey, a former detective chief inspector in the Met Police, has called for the prosecution of Andrew Gwynne, the…

Where will you find the most shoplifters?

8 February 2025 9:00 am

Nigel Farage claimed he would put together the biggest political rally in British history to launch Reform UK’s local election…

A mole in the CIA: The Seventh Floor, by David McCloskey, reviewed

18 January 2025 9:00 am

McCloskey’s latest thriller is well written and tautly paced, but we feel so little connection with the suspect agents that the eventual unmasking of the mole is an anticlimax

Avoids the breathless hype of so many podcasts: Finding Mr Fox reviewed

23 November 2024 9:00 am

We are all surely familiar with those stories of naive young Brits who travel abroad and are persuaded by a…

A post-Brexit entertainment: The Proof of My Innocence, by Jonathan Coe, reviewed

23 November 2024 9:00 am

A satire on radical economic libertarianism combines with a cosy Cotswold murder mystery in an ingenious series of stories within stories

The OnlyFans model, the milkshake and me

26 October 2024 9:00 am

What better start to a Monday than to attend Westminster Magistrates’ Court? I was there for the trial of the…

Has your local shop blacklisted you?

26 October 2024 9:00 am

Britain’s obsession with surveillance is reaching new heights. Several of the UK’s largest retailers have quietly installed facial recognition checkpoints…

The futility of Martyn’s Law

19 October 2024 9:00 am

There have been few acts of terrorist violence on British soil as grotesque as the Manchester Arena bombing in May…

Liberals are not just stupid – they’re dangerous

12 October 2024 9:00 am

We held a small party to celebrate the news that the UK had seen its largest rise in population in…

‘No win, no fee’ has no place in war zones

5 October 2024 9:00 am

The guilty plea of the former human rights lawyer Phil Shiner this week to charges of fraud is a story…

Pornography and the truth about the Pelicot case

5 October 2024 9:00 am

There have been protests in 30 cities across France, people marching in outrage over the case of Dominique Pelicot who…

I’m engaged!

21 September 2024 9:00 am

I slept only between the hours of 5 and 6 a.m, thanks to self-induced terror tactics. My son Adam stayed…

My night with the paedo hunters

14 September 2024 9:00 am

It’s a Wednesday evening, and I’m getting psyched up to go catch a paedophile with the boys. Playlist on, rocking…

Why I believe Lucy Letby’s trial was unfair

14 September 2024 9:00 am

Even Horace Rumpole could not have secured an acquittal for Lucy Letby. The more I look at this case, the…

Labour’s backwards steps on free speech

7 September 2024 9:00 am

Free speech advocates like me need to stop talking about the meagre gains we made under the last government because…

Calm down about the Notting Hill Carnival

27 August 2024 1:04 am

There was recently a mass public party at which all sorts of offences were committed. As innocent attendees cut loose…

Is the CCRC fit to decide on Lucy Letby’s appeal?

24 August 2024 9:00 am

Whatever happened to the likes of the BBC’s Rough Justice and Channel 4’s Trial and Error? Why did human rights…

Portrait of the week: King’s Speech, Trump shot and Rouen cathedral in flames

20 July 2024 9:00 am

Home The government funnelled three dozen bills into the King’s Speech, highlighting one to make a specific offence of spiking…

A David and Goliath battle involving a billion-dollar pornography website

20 July 2024 9:00 am

Laila Mickelwait appears to wage a one-woman crusade to shut down a major distributor of rape and child abuse videos

Can Labour solve our prisons crisis?

13 July 2024 9:00 am

There is no doubt that the new government (and in particular the prisons minister, James Timpson) is faced with a…

How body cams create a culture of fear

22 June 2024 9:00 am

Thanks to an underage relative who’d stolen my driving licence, I recently found myself ID-less at the local Co-op. I…

Would you dare to wear a Rolex?

8 June 2024 9:00 am

‘London has become a jungle, right? Anyone with anything nice risks having it taken.’ Bobby, the manager of one of…

Were the Greeks right about justice?

13 April 2024 9:00 am

The Sentencing Council, consisting of various legal authorities, has told judges and magistrates to consider, when sentencing the young, their…