Crime Fiction
Murders for April
April is the cruellest month, breeding detective fiction out of the dry land
Murders for March
Sharp lines, twisting plots and colourful characters
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Good cops and bad spies
Intelligence services as portrayed on-screen are pretty ghastly places to work
Murders for the New Year
From Oxford to Italy, the murders continue in 2024
Murders for December
A cornucopia of killings for the Christmas season
Dark obsessions of the Demon Dog
Love Me Fierce in Danger reads as a book for fans, inured to the World of Ellroy
Murders for March
A sinister start to the spring
The salvation of crime fiction
In praise of delectably dark escapism
Murders for September
Past and future killings
Disbanding St John’s Voices would be cultural vandalism
Modern bureaucrats should leave our choirs alone
Not another one!
How might the run-up to the next general election look?
Marshalling India’s maharajahs
Dethroned: The Downfall of India’s Princely States by John Zubrzycki
Old Ireland stirs
The defeat handed to Dublin’s progressive establishment was a reminder of an older Ireland
Dark rumblings at the RIBA
Secretive shenanigans concerning the future home of its drawings collection arouse concern about the wisdom of the governance of the RIBA
The City’s lights are dimming
The Square Mile is increasingly at risk of becoming an irrelevance
The age of the Sex Olympics
It is time to resist the pornification of the modern world
13 Years Later
Who could be inspired by this zombie conservatism?
A Freudian slip
Was Golden Age Vienna the birthplace of the modern mind?
Sleepwalking towards abolishing abortion law
How can a crime be a crime if it implies no consequences?
Two-tier policing?
If the Government caves in on its buffer zone guidance, it will be mandating two-tier policing
