and ex-officer gets £1m damages. These are truly strange times for justice... Below is my latest column for the Scotsman, published on 23...

Read my Scotsman column, published on 9th May, below. We seem to be living in an era of public inquiries. Long and expensive, they can be...

Many thanks to Gavin Madeley at the Scottish Daily Mail for the fantastic write up on Ruxton The First Modern Murder, which appeared in...

Here's my latest Scotsman column, on the above - as published on Monday 25th April 2022. The recent revelation that well over 100...

...mental disturbance This is my latest Scotsman column, out today (12th April 2022). Bowing out with no great fanfare last week was one...

...to justice My latest column in the Scotsman is below. When in 1945, the Ohrdruf Concentration Camp was the first to be liberated in...

...but legislation alone is not the answer This is the topic in my latest Scotsman newspaper column, published 14th March 2022. There was...

The Times, kindly carried the news about the American TV production company, owned by the actress Yeardley Smith (famous for her role as...

I am absolutely delighted to announce that I'm working with Yeardley Smith's US production firm Paperclip Ltd! They will be making a...

My latest Scotsman column was published on Monday 28th February. Here it is below.... I have never met Cressida Dick but I know a good...

Final sales figures for all Ringwood Publishing's books for 2021 are now in for all formats, paperback and ebooks, and for all areas, UK...

Read my latest column in the Scotsman, from 14th February 2022. Never mind the Russian tanks massed on Ukraine’s border, the...

A recent event made me reflect on the increasing tendency for institutional failure to be monetarised. Not so long ago, public bodies...

Here's my latest Scotsman column, published this week (17th January 2022). I was disappointed to learn that so far no victim of crime had...

A very Happy New Year to you. Here's my first Scotsman column for 2022. If you were unfortunate enough to be a victim of crime in 2021,...

Read what I have to say in my latest Scotsman column, published 20th December: At the year’s end, it’s right to look back at the past 12...

In 1940, three German spies were dumped in rough seas a mile offshore in the Moray Firth. But it turned out they were no match for...

Read what I have to say in my latest Scotsman column, published 6th December: It came as a shock when a recent survey of Scottish police...

As many of you may know, my true crime book Ruxton the First Modern Murder was in the running for the most prestigious literary award in...

behind the scenes..... Here's my latest Scotsman column published on 22 November 2021. Whether the outcome of the COP26 conference is all...