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Back in June 2017, I said that the charred ruin of Grenfell Tower should be kept as a memorial to national stupidity.
Most of us never have struck and never will strike another adult with our fists, let alone wield a weapon. But a dangerous, crazy person can kill you...
The prosecution case in the Lucy Letby affair is dead, but it may take a while to grasp how dead it is. Nobody can say for sure she is innocent, but...
Cheshire Police have just splatted themselves in the face with a large custard pie. One part of their large bureaucracy foolishly denied something to...
A society that does not think does not deserve to survive. The national reaction to the case of mass-killer Rudakubana is unthinking from top to...
Millions once wanted to be Bob Dylan. God forgive me, I was one of them. I tell you this because the era of Dylan will soon be over, and those who...
Rattling through the Ukrainian night in his T-shirt, aboard Kiev 's grandiose official train, Sir Keir Starmer ponders spending yet more money we do...
You know you are innocent. But somehow it has not gone that way in court, and you gape in dismay as the jury foreman declares you guilty.
In the words I reproduce in this article, there is something very shocking about the Lucy Letby case. It comes from a speech made in the House of...
It is hard to beat a good nostalgic war film at this time of year. Watching danger and adversity from the warm safety of the sofa, while the frost...
Even Horace Rumpole could not have secured an acquittal for Lucy Letby. The more I look at this case, the more I suspect that there could never...
This is about something that did not happen to me at school, an exam I dreaded, but never had to take. It was the only examination that ever really...