Cooper Brown: Shock
All the wires lead to a central box that is powered by a car battery. “I’m calling it the short, sharp, shock," said Mulligan proudly – he’s always been a fan of Thatcher. Basically, he’d built a...
View ArticleEditorial: Just don't mention the Scottish play
That the two-auditorium St James Theatre should rise from the ashes of the burned-down Westminster Theatre is reason enough for a round of appreciative applause. More impressive still, in these...
View ArticleThe Politics of the Winter Statement
Ed Miliband, at last week's Prime Minister's Questions (no PMQs today as the House is in recess until 15 October, after the party conferences), asked if one of Osborne's targets, that the national...
View ArticleDylan Jones: 'It's the minutiae of George Best’s behaviour which is...
Not only that, if you work in the media, you might be coerced into saying something flattering about said book, which will then leave you open to accusations of sycophancy, nepotism and log rolling....
View ArticleDo not arm all police, says Sir Hugh Orde
Fiona Bone, 32, and Nicola Hughes, 23, were sent to investigate a reported burglary yesterday when they were attacked with a gun and a grenade. Suspect Dale Cregan, 29, was arrested in June in...
View Article'Slutwalkers' take protest to Downing Street
The demonstration is part of the SlutWalk movement, which calls for a change in police and prosecution priorities to get more rapists and sex offenders behind bars. It comes ahead of a march due to...
View ArticleThe Thick of It: life imitating art imitating life?
Nor is this the first such instance. The day after an episode about hapless efforts to get schoolchildren to write mobile phone apps was recorded, the real Education Secretary announced plans so...
View ArticleSloane Crosley: 'I smile at people I don't know and ignore those I do'
Despite this warning about the inevitable deterioration of my sight, I didn't think much of getting my first pair of glasses at 20 years old. Perhaps this is because the prescription was so weak, I...
View ArticleWoman held after baby remains found on Tooting Bec Common in London
The legs of an infant were discovered at a council depot on Tooting Bec Common in south London on September 10. Experts found that the baby, who was white, had been born around two weeks beforehand...
View ArticleJournalists held in payments investigation
The 39-year-old Wiltshire officer was arrested at his home in the county at 6am, Scotland Yard said, on suspicion of misconduct in a public office and conspiracy to commit misconduct in a public...
View ArticleWrong to arm all police, says former senior firearms officer
Andy Redhead, who had 20 years as a highly qualified armed officer, said people see police with guns more regularly, but they are more comfortable knowing those officers are in the minority, with...
View ArticleGiant snails seized at Glasgow Airport
Border Force officers at Glasgow Airport found the living giant African land snails when a man arrived from Amsterdam earlier this month. They discovered the snails, which are around 15cm-long on...
View ArticleEditorial: An indefensible invasion of privacy
The Closer editor's defence – that the snaps covering four pages and including several of the Duchess topless are "not in the least shocking" – is, perhaps deliberately, missing the point. And lawyers...
View ArticleEditorial: Phone hacking may be just the beginning
So far, those who may have been implicated deny all wrong-doing. But with eight people charged over phone hacking and the police investigation now winding down, the parallel inquiry into other illegal...
View ArticlePolice chief Sir Norman Bettison to be probed by IPCC over Hillsborough claims
The IPCC confirmed it had received a referral from the West Yorkshire Police Authority following complaints from members of the public about allegations that Sir Norman was "involved in the production...
View ArticleCorruption case against Zardari to be reopened
President Asif Ali Zardari is believed to be in little immediate danger from the case in Switzerland, where he is recognised as enjoying immunity from prosecution as a foreign head of state. But the...
View ArticlePolice shot Duggan 'with a loaded gun in his hand'
The 29-year-old's death in Tottenham, north London, sparked riots that swept across the capital and the country. Yesterday Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, 30, went on trial at Snaresbrook Crown Court accused...
View ArticleInternational peace envoy jeered at refugee camp
But in Jordan, some angry refugees protested against his visit â an indication of widespread skepticism that a mission Lakhdar Brahimi himself has called "nearly impossible" will bring results. Some...
View ArticleGraduate Catherine Wells-Burr was likely killed before car fire
Catherine Wells-Burr was discovered in her red Ford Focus near Ilminster, Somerset last week by firefighters. The 23-year-old's boyfriend Rafal Piotr Nowak and his former partner Anna Julia...
View ArticleIndefinite prison terms 'breach human rights'
The European Court of Human Rights said indeterminate sentences for the protection of the public (IPPs) were "draconian". The Justice Secretary, Chris Grayling, said the Government intended to appeal....
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