Adele Parks
Murders for September
The best and worst crime fiction for September
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The Book of JO’B
James O’Brien’s aggressive incuriosity is becoming ever more embattled as his worldview crumbles
The rise and fall of Nicola Sturgeon
The former SNP leader squandered her talents in a classic tale of hubris
Fear and fury in Belfast
Violence spiralled out of control in Northern Ireland in the aftermath of a shocking crime
The screaming spires
Oxford University must clarify where it stands on academic freedom
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
A criminal abuse of the law
Our criminal justice system is deferential to those who abuse it while coming down hard on the innocent
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Our money, abroad
If Whitehall can’t stop taxpayers’ money reaching terrorists, it should stop sending it abroad
New model Auntie
David Elstein spells out the big decisions that Matt Brittin, the BBC’s new director-general, needs to make very quickly in order to save the Corporation
A carnivore’s arcadia
Bowled over by a de luxe fillet steak
Gruesome twosomes
Considering culinary mismatches
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
Dismantle the infrastructure of censoriousness
Digital technology and private intelligence are bolstering cultural censoriousness in universities
Cofnas, Cambridge and academic freedom
Truly provocative ideas are still unwelcome in our universities
The malicious and the mad
Two recent productions offer two different perspectives on dark sides of masculinity
The simple joy of giallo
Giallo films made for glorious Italian escapism