Grief, fear and spectacle: On the ground after the Yom Kippur killings
A terror attack on a Manchester synagogue killed two and wounded four others
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Why is everything being hacked?
The government is trying to curb cyberattacks like the recent Jaguar hack. It won’t be easy
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D4vd and the parasitic cruelty of internet sleuths
After the dead body of a teenage girl was found in the singer D4vd’s car, online speculators went wild
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The assassination of Charlie Kirk
The right-wing influencer and Trump ally was shot during a public appearance in Utah.
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Blame Rotherham sexual abuse on misogyny – not immigration
Allegations about police abuse of women and girls in Yorkshire undermine the grooming gangs narrative pushed by the right.
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The grooming gangs fallout
Reluctance to hold a public inquiry into the scandal has made the government look like it has something to hide.
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The murder that shocked the Edwardians
The case of Dr Crippen contains a story of multiple on-the-make lives as well as gruesome death.
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Penal populism has broken Britain’s prisons
Lazy “tough on crime” rhetoric has led to a crisis of overcrowding.
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The BBC podcast In Dark Corners reveals a network of British predators
The journalist and survivor Alex Renton uncovers the “Paedophile Information Exchange”, a pro-paedophile group that campaigned throughout the 1970s
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The truth about the grooming scandal
The media did not ignore the gangs or the violence – but the victims still await justice.
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New Year, same American violence
The US’s acceptance of deadly crime and political bloodshed goes far deeper than its addiction to guns.
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Anthony Horowitz’s Moonflower Murders is a delicious buffet of detective-story Englishness
Blood stains, Battenberg cakes and a brilliant older woman – what a treat this series is.
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How true crime became “victim-centred”
The genre can no longer justify itself in terms of entertainment value alone. Enter the ubiquitous invocation of the victim.
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Is Labour prepared to be radical to solve the prisons crisis?
Sentencing reform is a tough sell for the law-and-order loving British public.
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Why Gisèle Pelicot is a hero
The horror of the mass rape trial in France has shaken the world.
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The riots have exposed just how broken the justice system is
It’s difficult to be tough on crime when the court system is on the brink of collapse.
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Is cocaine driving the British riots?
Easy highs have become a national addiction.
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When women fight back
Three accounts of women who met male brutality on its own terms reveal the limits of justice – both within…
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JK Rowling is right to scorn Scotland’s new Hate Crime Act
The SNP sees itself as a vanguard of progressive values. But this priggish law is at odds with the notion…
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The narcotopian dilemma
Why liberal societies are helpless in the face of the global illegal drugs trade.
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