Crime novels
Too many women are being murdered
Why crime writers need to move on from serial femicide
Criminally good writing
Jeremy Black reviews The Man Who Didn’t Fly, by Margot Bennett
Miss Havisham on heroin
Natasha Green reviews Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders, by Kate Griffin
British Crime Classics
Jeremy Black’s recommendations for a murderous British genre
Reflections of a scientific humanist
Michael Shermer’s new book is a collection of skilful elucidations of academic ideas
Peter King: a man of many talents
Remembering the great British saxophonist and prize-winning maker of model aircraft
Reviving the inner anarchist
A new series shows Britain sliding into authoritarianism. Sound familiar?
Quiet, you’ll get yours in a minute
He’d have wanted “Dropping the Pilot”
The Coronavirus rebels in full
Backbenchers in the Tory party are gradually turning their private frustrations into rebel votes
IPSA That Man Again
In the future, everyone will be a WAG admin for 15 groups
When Brexit was unfashionable, he was there
Lord Stoddart of Swindon, 1926-2020
Hajdúszoboszló on my mind
Tibor Fischer in Budapest muses on Hungary’s fractious political alliance
Lend me your votes
Why is Stuart Andrew able to cast 203 votes in each Commons division?
How much longer can Greece and Turkey avoid war?
Greece and Turkey nearly came to blows last summer, and the risk of war remains