Drugs
Going for broke
The founding member of the Small Faces was playing an instrument from the age of six, but was forever haunted by the fear of MS, the inherited disease which eventually killed him
Glamour and grime
Of the Stones’ talented wives and girlfriends, Anita Pallenberg contributed most, dictating the band’s style and even how they should remix tracks
Speed demons
The highs and lows of being a meth addict
A shaggy drug story
The Scottish writer David Keenan has published five novels in five years: This is Memorial Device (2017), For the Good…
Scots are being sacrificed to a failed drug policy
The Scottish government’s attempts to spin the latest drugs deaths statistics are a grim response to a total failure of…
My brief career as a marijuana farmer
The latest heatwave reminded me of my brief career as a marijuana farmer. This wasn’t in the summer of 1976,…
An alternative way of living
It’s been a century since the heyday of the Bloomsbury group, and now Nino Strachey, a descendant of one of…
Too close to home
Julie Myerson has, somewhat confusingly, written a novel called Nonfiction. The confusion of course is the point, because this is…
A mad racket
There is much more desperation in this searching and enlightening history than there are remedies. Andrew Scull is a distinguished…
A democracy ruled by dynasts
The Philippines is the odd man out in Asia, a predominantly Catholic country colonised first by Spain, then the United…
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‘I like to have a martini,/ Two at the very most./ After three I’m under the table,/ After four I’m…
Ice storm
The ‘chemsex’ drug devastating the gay community
Mushrooms and missiles
Vladimir Putin’s decision on Sunday to put his ‘deterrence forces’ – code for nuclear weapons – in a high state…
It couldn’t happen here – or could it?
Almost everyone here that I’ve spoken to about it assumes that the opioid crisis in the United States won’t ever…
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…
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The London mayor’s new policy on cannabis is a disaster
A war on drugs? I do hope so
I’m not going to lie, I let out a little chuckle — maybe even a murmur of approval — when I read…
Did Chinese fentanyl kill Michael K. Williams?
Did Chinese-manufactured fentanyl, a synthetic opioid, kill Michael Kenneth Williams, the man who played ‘Omar’ in The Wire? Within minutes…
There’s no such thing as ‘woke coke’
Have you heard about ‘Woke Coke’ – ‘Wokaine’, if you will? Apparently drug dealers are now targeting the WaWs (Woke…
Putting on a brave face
San Francisco is a fantastic place… it’s terribly sunny… I am having a splendid hedonistic time here… I find myself…
Our mental health is going up in smoke
As we creep back into the open, as the Covid wards empty and the mental health clinics fill up, how…
The conservative appeal of drug gangs
According to the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick, the easing of lock-down will be accompanied by a rise in crime…
Three plots for the price of one
ZeroZeroZero is the impossibly exciting new drugs series from Roberto Saviano — the author who gave us perhaps my all-time…
This will hurt
County Lines is the kind of social realism that the British do so well, if not too well. In other…
Is Joe Biden on drugs?
Is Joe Biden on drugs? We should hope so. Look at the state of him when he’s in what Donald…
