Detective novels
Murders for December
From Sweden to Bombay
Murders for July
The good, the beautiful and the grotesque
Murders for June
Classic settings conceal psychological rawness and sinuously convoluted mysteries
Murders for late December
Not all is grim and gloom in the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series
What do detective novels tell us about the period in which they were written?
Professor Jeremy Black sifts through the evidence with Graham Stewart
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The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
Truth and consequences for ministers
Former Ministers should be hauled back before MPs to justify their poor decisions
Eulogy for rural life
A growing sense of gloom pervades Starmer’s Britain
The underworld on the high street
Beneath the façade of everyday commerce, organised crime has quietly captured British high streets
Signal failure
Ministers love announcing transformative mega-projects, but millions of commuters would settle for an internet connection that actually works
Conservatives should learn from Labour
We might disagree with the ideas of Labour politicians, but we can learn from their methods
Surrogacy is not a human right
Noble principles are being twisted to prop up an exploitative ideology
Grey expectations
Saving England’s native red squirrel will require harsh measures
So long, Socrates
Socrates turned relentless questioning into a way of life — and paid for it with his own
Vapid slogans for the hard of thinking
Every modern university, it seems, needs a “mission statement”
The man who knew too little
Faced with Mandelson, Starmer offers a bold defence: he didn’t know, and that’s what makes him blameless
The original sin
It should not have been difficult to see that there were problems with appointing Peter Mandelson