Odd crimewave

Reading Laura Mauro’s “Japanese Toilet Ghosts” [FT459:30-35], reminded me of a less well known fear in the Western world, which –according to the modern rabbinical Internet resource site TheTorah.com

How crime organizes the world

Having set up the “Kingdom of Kubala” in woods on the edge of an industrial estate near Jedburgh, Scotland, in the spring, Kofi Offeh, 36 from Ghana, Jean Gasho, 42, from Zimbabwe and Kaura Taylor, 21

The last word

The SAS (Special Air Service) make routine use of sleep-deprivation exercises in their selection process, and these often feature in later training. Hallucinations during such exercises are very commo

Budget fiasco: That the whole of Wednesday’s Budget was erroneously published by the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) an hour before chancellor Rachel Reeves (pictured) stood up to give her spee