British Library Crime Classics
Murders for early June
Jeremy Black’s ominous murder mystery round-up for the early summer
Murders for late February
From countryside crimes to mysteries on the waves, Jeremy Black recommends further reading from the British Library Crime Classics collection
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
The missing variable in the masculinity crisis
The literature on masculinity ignores the most obvious factor of all: a steady, civilisational fall in testosterone
Come together
Some political truths on which we can all agree
Legal curiosities
The pursuit of justice in small or atypical jurisdictions has sometimes led to some unusual legal quandaries
The dead-end art of conspiracy
Should art dissect conspiracy theories or immerse itself in them?
It is time to cut pensions
The economic burden on younger people is unsustainable
The real problem with rigmarole
A journalistic focus on proceduralism distracts us from deeper political questions
Woke politics was never trivial
Wokeness was a lot more, and a lot worse, than a passing online fad
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Don’t panic about “Angry Young Women”
Despite everything, most people are still fairly normal
Dignified design for the people
A book that asks all the right questions but hasn’t thought through all the answers
Warm home, wrong decision
Ministers are once again choosing the most politically convenient response to rising energy costs, not the most effective one