Some ex-detectives get an allotment. Liam investigates barbershops. He isn’t a policeman anymore, but old habits apparently die hard. For eight years, he worked undercover, posing as a junkie to score 20 quid deals of crack and heroin. The baggies …
Who polices the paedo-hunters?
It began on Friday night, when a self-proclaimed “online child protection team” live-streamed claims about Adrian Smith, an alleged paedophile, on social media. The man was swiftly arrested — though the police soon released him. Yet by Saturday, at about …
The countryside revolt against the Tories
When George Orwell tried to define Englishness in his 1941 essay “England Your England”, written under the sound of Nazi bombers, he resorted to a list of images: “The clatter of clogs in the Lancashire mill towns, the to-and-fro of …