Crime Novels
Murders for June
Classic settings conceal psychological rawness and sinuously convoluted mysteries
Murders for late November
From Shakespeare to Agatha Christie, crime novels invoke the genre’s heritage, sometimes ably and sometimes not
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
What is academia without scholarship?
Research is an essential feature of academic life
Scullionbait 2: This Time It’s Intersectional
Academics are attacked and AI goes intersectional
Giants and pygmies
Some stop-gap leaders of the opposition were never intended to be potential prime ministers
Ridiculous research and irate academics (w/ Charlotte Gill)
Do we have the right to debate where our taxes are going?
Wearing shades
We plebs aren’t supposed to buy designer-influenced fast fashion anymore
Why did behavioural scientists crave mask mandates?
The COVID pandemic exposed the nastiness of nudging
Overmedicalisation is harming Generation Z
Zoomers are fragile because they have been told they are
He’ll never let the old flag fall
Lee Anderson will never stand for insult, especially the insult of never being invited round for dinner
Save this perfect Welsh building
The Church Institute and Churchmen’s Club at Llanfairfechan need, and deserve, to be preserved
Talking to young man about Andrew Tate
You cannot educate the urge to transgress out of young men
Bumps in the road
British roads, like Britain itself, need a lot of maintenance work
