Sponsoring my niece for this tough challenge… Blue yonder takes on the Yorkshire three peaks gofund.me/0a2cc776

📣 Last chance to sign up for our free online discussion tonight, at 7 pm, about our favourite true crime books, hosted by Robin Jarossi #author and #journalist Sarah Bax Horton @Dan_SmithWriter and me 👉 us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Really interesting panel on True Crime with National Crime Reading Month. It's something I'm getting more used to. Thanks to Dr Angela Buckley 🔎, Sarah Bax Horton, Robin Jarossi #author and #journalist, Dan Smith for introducing us to more authors.

Late to notice, late to report. Too late to reverse. 36 police stations left in London compared to 160 a few years ago. #cutshaveconsequences

Corruption in high places, a story that never goes away – and, yes, a quite brilliant screenplay… theguardian.com/film/article/2…

Three #truecrime authors and myself talk about our favourite case studies for National Crime Reading Month. I've just posted a recording of our bookchat here… open.substack.com/pub/robinjaros…

Three #truecrime authors and myself talk about our favourite case studies for National Crime Reading Month. I've just posted a recording of our bookchat here… open.substack.com/pub/robinjaros…

Three #truecrime authors and myself discuss classic case studies from the past for National Crime Reading Month. Here's a recording… #PickUpAPageTurner open.substack.com/pub/robinjaros…

Under the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act, Britain locked away c.50,000 people as ‘moral imbeciles’. Many were young women – working-class unwed mothers, often the victims of sexual assault. This week I talked to Jess Cale about this 20th-century horror show: shorturl.at/4gAFa

Why did Scotland Yard's biggest serial killer hunt fail so badly? Part 2 open.substack.com/pub/robinjaros…

Britain’s Next Prime Minister Has Shown Us Who He Is, and It’s Not Good nytimes.com/2024/07/03/opi…

Why did Scotland Yard's biggest manhunt fail: Part 3 open.substack.com/pub/robinjaros…

Two shocking crimes in Highbury I vividly remember from my schooldays… After 49 years, the murderer of Eileen Cotter was caught open.substack.com/pub/robinjaros…

Really affecting and well-researched feature about the pressures of freelance TV work, particularly in #TrueCrime theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/a…

Can’t believe Eze’s free kick was disallowed

Three books – two I admired, one I couldn't finish open.substack.com/pub/robinjaros…

Four years ago I was asked to talk about this tragic case on a TV documentary series. An investigation that appeared long forgotten, except by the family of the victim, Muriel McKay, sprang back into the headlines this summer. Here's an update… personsunknown.net/p/55-years-lat…

Grenfell inquiry: how the privatisation of building safety testing led to this tragedy theconversation.com/grenfell-inqui… via The Conversation

As subs and production staff are relentlessly cut from newspaper/magazine budgets, so the mistakes get bigger. This week my local paper printed the same review twice… 😟