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
Should the UK force its overseas territories to legalise same-sex marriage?
The UK Government is keen to ensure legalisation of same-sex marriage throughout its dominions, but exercising its colonial authority is not the most prudent tactic
Have schools lost their true purpose?
Schools have become too focussed on training talent in service of the economy to the detriment of individual and collective flourishing
Professionalism is a two-way street
The lobby’s mysterious lack of solidarity with Nadine White
Ban Trans myths by writing ‘FACT’
Prevent the rise of fascism by letting the state arrest people for what they think
The time of my life
Dominic Hilton explains why time itself has become his biggest enemy
A time to keep silence and time to speak
Nicola Sturgeon offers a PR masterclass in how to bury bad news
Why conservatives shouldn’t migrate to Gab
If Gab’s ideal of freedom is defined by Christian Reconstructionists and fascist philosophers, then free speech will be the means, rather than the end, of the reconstruction of social media
China’s long march towards global hegemony continues
Unfortunately for Britain, those things which might be hoped to constrain a budding imperial power do not hold China back
Is Hezbollah protected by the Lebanese political system?
And does Lokman Slim’s murder indicate a change in Hezbollah’s deployment of violence?
The moral injuries in store for NHS workers
Research is revealing invisible injuries beyond the traditional diagnosis of PTSD, with important applications for healthcare staff caught up in battling Covid-19