Where’s “Health & Safety” when push comes to shove?
With “health & safety” all the rage in the Politically Correct religion of our contemporary business world, what real protection can employees count on when faced with a very basic, brutal and potentially lethal crime?
The Vatican: Hierarchy of Crimes?
I’m sure we each have our own ideas about which crimes are worse than others – and our ideas may differ greatly. I mean there are some obvious ones, I suppose, like most people would agree motiveless murder is a worse crime than, say, nicking a doughnut from the local bakery. But then there are [...]
Disability hate crime – does it even exist?
The Equality and Human Rights Commission are launching an inquiry into disability hate crimes. And not before time. Every working day, on average, at least one person appears in court charged with a crime against a disabled person. Nearly half of these involve violence. A disability hate crime is a criminal offense motivated by hatred [...]
Personal violation, Robbery, Theft and Larceny
I know I am not the first, and I am definitely not the last but earlier this week I was the victim of a robbery. The house I was staying in was burgled. An ingenious entry – gemming off a sliding patio door and forcing open the window. This happened whilst the house was empty [...]
Are crime writers guilty
Are crime writers guilty of murder, or something worse? Image via Wikipedia The Sisters in Crime blog started me thinking, when they asked this question – “Does it bother you, that you write murder as entertainment?” I’m in the middle of writing my first crime novel at the moment, and I’ve been reading crime fiction [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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