Crime
A bookseller’s guide to book thieves
At my shop, it seems to be everyone from students to organised professional gangs
Could I have prevented a Kray murder?
Could I have prevented a Kray murder?
The disturbing case of Roger Khan – and the cost of cheap justice
The disturbing case of Roger Khan – and the human cost of doing justice on the cheap
The sophisticates are wrong about Cleveland, Ohio
To Cleveland, Ohio, where middle America’s middle class begins its great Midwest sprawl. I’ve always wanted to visit Cleveland because…
How the pixel became a key feature of drone warfare
I hadn’t really thought much about pixels before, despite spending a large portion of my day looking at them. After…
Curtain call for Ruth Rendell
Ruth Rendell’s final novel, Dark Corners, is about how psychological necessity can drive perfectly ordinary people either to terrible deeds…
I was Reggie Kray's penpal
Harry Mount once idolised the Kray twins. He’s since seen the error of his ways
Just how tough a sentence was 14 years for Libor-rigging?
Rogue traders Former UBS trader Tom Hayes was jailed for 14 years for rigging the Libor market. How long could…
You can do anything (but you shouldn’t): the brave new world of internet morality
Going online does not make you invisible – as the adulterers who used the hacked site Ashley Madison are discovering
A crime novel so incompetent it might have been written by a child
First, a quote from the novel under review. The context: it is a flashback scene of the behaviour of a…
Labour’s austerity tradition
The spirit of 1945 No one would have been more surprised at the sight of 100,000 people marching in London…
Take it from Taki — Hillary Clinton will be the next US president
The last week in Gotham was exceptional fun. I saw a Broadway play, Finding Neverland, compliments of the producer, my…
The sad demise of the amateur sleuth: it’s all the fault of better policing
‘The crime novel,’ said Bertolt Brecht, ‘like the world itself, is ruled by the English.’ He was thinking of the…
Here’s everything Islamophobic that I have to say, all at once
A couple of weeks back I wrote an article headed: ‘Call me insane, but I’m voting Labour.’ Among the many…
How (not) to poison a dog
Deadly to dogs An Irish setter was allegedly poisoned at Crufts, using beef containing slug pellets. Some other substances with which dog-show rivals…
When did we become a nation of police informers?
There’s a danger that in what follows your columnist may seem to be recommending an attitude. Please don’t think that.…
The Krays, Dennis Nilsen – and Chris Grayling: a conversation with Sir Ivan Lawrence QC
Sir Ivan Lawrence QC on the Krays, Dennis Nilsen – and Chris Grayling
You can still book your flight to Mars
Space to dream Richard Branson’s dream of commercial space flights has suffered a setback after a prototype craft crashed. But…
How did Britain ever have unarmed criminals?
Once, both police and criminals in Britain routinely did without guns. How did that happen? And why did it change?
At least South Africa has the world’s best murder trials
South Africa’s spectacular murder trials – first Oscar Pistorius, now Shrien Dewani – help take minds off other difficulties
‘Rape is rape’ serves no one well, least of all rape victims
When Mary Jane Mowat remarked recently that rape conviction statistics would not improve ‘until women stop getting so drunk,’ the…
The biggest civil liberties outrage you've never heard of
‘Bubble matches’ sound like something quaint. In fact,they’re an outrage against civil liberties
The bits of Magna Carta that David Cameron won’t want taught in schools
The not-so-great charter David Cameron wants every child to be taught about Magna Carta. Some bits he might want to…
Don’t blame the Guardian if criminals are getting better at hiding online. Blame iTunes and Netflix
I wouldn’t wish to deny that all drug dealers and crime lords read the Guardian. Indeed, check the circulation figures,…
The internet is broken – and we can no longer do without it
‘The internet is broken,’ a corporate chieftain told me last week. It was an arresting remark, but he did not…
