Crime
The law is failing to protect us
Dangerous men need separating from society
The failing state we’re in
Backlog Britain needs urgent reform
Dealing with sticky fingers
Theft is the enemy of good business, leaving less for profit, wages and the taxman
Gangsters by the Gulf
Dubai and the rise of organised crime
Descent into hell
In Venezuela, socialism’s gruesome legacy is no academic question
Delivering a monstrous injustice
It’s enough to make you go postal
Murders for the start of February
A good novel as detective story, and the detective story as a good novel
Never take it lying down
The feminist fix: we need a statutory inquiry into police misogyny and misconduct
Erasing Irish women
There’s nothing gender-neutral about murder
Throwing good money after bad
Spare us the spectacle of incredible claims to reform criminal drug-users by showering them with more public sector love
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Dance with the devil
Should a museum be a venue for the display of works of art for sale?
Cleaning up the town
As cities grew, so did the need for reform and sanitation
Francis Bacon’s visceral language
Pain and pleasure are never far away in these portraits
The Tory beauty contest
The good, the bad, the ugly and the downright embarrassing
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
How Britain has imported Bangladeshi politics
A failure to take immigration and integration seriously means that Britain has to deal with other nation’s problems
The rise of suburbia
The English experiment in liminal living
Booty contest
This book sets out to rebalance ahistorical narratives of how museum collections were constructed
Don’t Cry for Me, Diego Garcia
A small island is in trouble, foreigners are probably up to no good, and the Tories are yomping to the rescue
Reading Winston Churchill
Half a century on, we’re still learning more about Britain’s most famous Prime Minister
