Crime Fiction
Murder stories for December days
Jeremy Black makes his way through the British Library’s Crime Classics collection
Murders for the onset of shorter days
Professor Jeremy Black on British Library Crime Classics and his favourite ‘whodunits’
Why Sherlock Holmes remains the greatest detective
There is no need to make Sherlock Holmes more likeable, part of his brilliance is in his ambiguity
Ozi the Orangutan is no Winnie-the-Pooh
A misguided attack on palm oil production is enough to make you facepalm
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
The dangerous fallacy of “self-deterrence”
The concept makes little sense and could create serious risks
Is “progressive realism” either?
Weighing up the rights and wrongs of the Lammy Doctrine
The Church of England’s race to the bottom
The Church of England should not be putting ideology before history
Post-truth medicine
Gender clinics offer a charade that relies on the symbols of evidence-based medicine
Accidental Orientalism
Britain has been reduced to selling a cheap simulacrum of its history
In the city
From the suburbs to the estates
Femcel fantasies
“The Substance” is an accidentally revealing film
The first female President will be Republican
American conservatives are far less averse to assertive women than the political left
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
