Paedophilia

Under cover in the underworld

4 October 2014 9:00 am

W.H. Auden was addicted to detective fiction. In his 1948 essay ‘The Guilty Vicarage’, he analysed the craving, which he…

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Portrait of the week

12 July 2014 9:00 am

Home Theresa May, the Home Secretary, ordered a review, taking perhaps ten weeks, by Peter Wanless, the head of the…

Letters

12 July 2014 9:00 am

Real help for those in pain Sir: The fickleness of existence is exemplified by the fact that being Tony Blair’s…

There’s no fighting paedophile panic. But I’ll try

12 July 2014 9:00 am

As essay titles go, ‘On losing an argument with Tim Loughton MP’ may fail to catch the imagination; but there…

Long life

12 July 2014 9:00 am

One problem from which I am confident I don’t suffer is paedophilia. I have always liked picking up babies and…

Stirring the imagination into overdrive: ‘The Sinner’ by John Collier (1904)

Sins of the fathers

1 March 2014 9:00 am

I have a confession to make. I really enjoyed this book. It’s been a while since I admitted something of…