Crime
Who’s pursuing a vendetta?
Lord help me I love a hatchet job, and you’ll have to too if you want to make it through…
We need to talk about tasers
Donald Burgess is the latest Briton to die after being hit by a police taser. He won’t be the last,…
The price of courage
Lawrence Osborne’s novels are easy to admire. They tend to deal with characters trapped in morally questionable situations and their…
A death-haunted city
Naples, the tatterdemalion capital of the Italian south, is said to be awash with heroin. Chinese-run morphine refineries on its…
High life
A couple more weeks in the Bagel and then on to dear old London. I’ve had a very good time…
The dishonesty of our age
It isn’t hard to notice that some crimes are more important than others. Or at least more politically advantageous. It…
High life
I celebrate two Easters every year, the Catholic one and the Orthodox one, which means I get very drunk on…
High life
New York Our own Douglas Murray is the canary in the Bagel coal mine as of late. The left controls…
Criminalising ‘cyberflashing’ is a waste of time
It’s a fact of life that at any given time, a woman’s social media messages will be filled with three…
All the rage
Aggression is everywhere in New York
Cop out
Constant castigation is harming the police force
GHB and GBH
Never, never kill the dog. It’s rule one in the crime writer’s manual. Cats are bad enough, as I can…
Women don’t ‘consent’ to their own deaths
A ruling by the Court of Appeal last week has further enshrined the notion that women can consent to their…
High life
New York Don’t let anyone tell you the Bagel is worse off than Kabul, where three people were recently shot…
Sisters in crime
If you’re after jewel thieves, bank robbers and gold smugglers, look no further than Caitlin Davies’s Queens of the Underworld.…
A man in a hurry
After a wretched childhood, H.G. Wells was ruthless in making up for lost time, says Frances Wilson
Letters
How to stay safe Sir: Mary Wakefield is correct to highlight the opprobrium heaped on anyone who suggests sensible safety…
Don’t mix up murder and hate crime
I’m not sure very many of our politicians, the London Mayor or even the Met can really be said to…
Sabina Nessa and the truth about stranger danger
The brutal murder of primary school teacher Sabina Nessa in Kidbrooke, South London this month has prompted more anger about…
Fatal attraction
Why do some women find killers irresistible?
The rise and fall of the yakuza
For the first time in history, an organised crime ‘yakuza’ boss has been sentenced to death in a Japanese court.…
Is burglary on the rise again?
Long before the official numbers began to rise, back in 2014, it was clear that knife crime was on the…
Boris’s crime crackdown will be harder than he thinks
Can crime be beaten with a beaten down police force? The government certainly hopes so. Today, the Prime Minister launched…
Domestic violence affects us all
Since the first Covid-19 lockdown last year, cases of domestic abuse and subsequent deaths have risen. In England and Wales,…
World gone lazy
‘Where’s the car?’ said my wife Alice, interrupting my Zoom meeting on Saturday morning. ‘It’s where you left it,’ I…
