Bournemouth police are losing control
Who is Ritchie Wellman? He is a father, a boyfriend, an assistant operations manager at a local business and a…
Inside the Mohammed Hijab trial
Mohammed Hijab sat at the back of the courtroom and ate doughnuts while his lawyer, Mark Henderson, delivered his closing…
Teddy bears and TikTokers: on the Epping front line
Early on Sunday afternoon at the Epping Bean Café, where a cutesy sign hangs from a wall reading ‘Coffee makes…
Adam Curtis: ‘modern power makes me cry’
Adam Curtis used to make TikToks but he doesn’t want to talk about them. ‘I did quite a lot of…
Ballymena got what it wanted
Thursday evening. All quiet in Ballymena so far, after three nights of wrath. On the kerb of Waring Street –…
In Essex, the only way is Reform
The country is slipping away. The whole place, slowly, but London suddenly, blinding glass slabs becoming East End blocks, ‘SPLENDID…
Have I unmasked Cambridge’s bike bandit?
The Cambridge bike bandit emerged. I watched the rough, smiling face of the old man who came slowly from his…
Kneecap are not rebels
Better rebels than Kneecap would’ve begun their headline set at Wide Awake festival in south London on Friday night with…
Hunting for the mother of three abandoned babies
Elsa had been alive less than an hour and her umbilical cord was still attached when she was wrapped in…
Signal and the narcissism of connectivity
Signal is the fashionable place to discuss shady business – and that is probably what tempted National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, a military man…
Can Israel take more war?
Israel No telling in Jerusalem this morning that Israel resumed war and poured hell on Gaza last night. In the…
Howard Hodgson is a tabloid survivor
Howard Hodgson ends lunch in a rage against unearned fame. ‘Marilyn Monroe: drunken actress,’ he says, ‘fat drunken actress. Gets killed. Ohhh!…
A feel-good classic: The Armie HammerTime Podcast reviewed
Relive with me and enjoy again the downfall of Armand Douglas Hammer. If you remember, Hammer’s Hollywood career had been…
‘Kids were tougher in the Nineties’: what happens in Dan Pena’s £27,000 ‘tough love’ seminars?
Dan Pena has a picture of Adolf Hitler on his wall, but not any old picture. You know, not a…
Meeting the Chagos islanders of Crawley
Departing Gatwick train station, with nine minutes till Crawley, I tried to get in the head of a Chagossian. In…
My night with the paedo hunters
It’s a Wednesday evening, and I’m getting psyched up to go catch a paedophile with the boys. Playlist on, rocking…
No one wants to lead these riots
Joe/Jeff Marsh wants to make it clear that he did not, like people keep saying, start the riots in Southport.…
Olympics on steroids: the millionaire behind the Enhanced Games
Aron D’Souza likes to celebrate the new year with Peter Thiel, the venture capitalist billionaire who is good friends with…
Why is theft so high?
Figures out today show a country with levels of surveyed crime still at historic lows (just a quarter of the…
‘Nationalise Google!’: the techno-optimists hoping to save the world
Future House is a weird private members’ club. There’s a mattress on the floor for napping, a bathtub designed to…
Good luck fixing the CrowdStrike glitch
Worldwide, computers are saying no. GPs can’t access appointments and medical records, banking apps have been knocked offline, flights are…
Can independent candidates pose a threat to Labour?
Nigel Farage says that Britain is ready for a ‘revolt’, and he’s not the only candidate in this election committed…
Would you dare to wear a Rolex?
‘London has become a jungle, right? Anyone with anything nice risks having it taken.’ Bobby, the manager of one of…
Ahmad Massoud: ‘I’m 100% sure I can topple the Taliban’
It’s fighting season in Afghanistan again. When the Americans were in charge, after the poppy fields had been harvested in…
My night with Youth Demand
‘Won’t you take me to… Funkytown!’ At around 10 p.m., in a bar under a railway arch in south London,…
