gangsters

It should be illegal for TV baddies to profit from their psychopathic acts

26 April 2025 9:00 am

I’m about to give away the opening scene of the latest gangsters-are-cool drama MobLand. Don’t worry. It won’t spoil anything.…

An otherworldly London: The Great When, by Alan Moore, reviewed

26 October 2024 9:00 am

Is occult knowledge even possible in the age of the internet? If a recondite author obsessed you back in the…

Am I slightly psychopathic to be so obsessed with gangster TV?

20 July 2024 9:00 am

Most of my favourite TV shows seem to involve gangsters in one way or another: The Sopranos, Breaking Bad, Top…

Celebrity gangster

27 March 2021 9:00 am

Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel was about as meta-gangsterish as a real life gangster could get. Born in the slums of Manhattan’s…

How one man took on the French betting system — and kept winning against the odds

14 April 2018 9:00 am

About a third of the way through this book I worked out that I had an unbeatable system for winning…