The strange fate of Flight 2069
Months before 9/11, a passenger seized control of a Boeing 747 and nearly crashed it into the Sahara. Everyone survived…
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Christmas time is for murder
What exactly is the appeal of the festive crime mystery?
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In car-boot Britain, “petty crime” has turned professional
Robert Jenrick is wrong – the problem is organised crime
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The insidious cruelty of justice porn
A new documentary explores the moral complexity of To Catch a Predator, a 2000s show based on hunting paedophiles
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Journalism in an age of decline and degradation
I keep an edition of the magazine from 1963 on my desk; it seems little has changed since then
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Knife crime is creeping into Middle England
Overall knife crime is down. But Huntingdon’s attack symbolises its commute from the cities to the suburbs and shires
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Pervasive mass violence has paralysed our failing government
After yet another murderous attack, it is time to overhaul our inadequate anti-terror regime
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Britain’s digital delinquents
Organised gangs and hostile states are recruiting teenage hackers to wreak havoc online
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Exclusive: 38 police officers were involved in Sycamore Gap investigation
If only real crimes were taken this seriously
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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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