How Nilsen controlled his own legacy Mass murderer Dennis Nilsen spent the second half of his life in prison. The first half helped turn him into the monster he became: troubled teenager in Fraserbugh (pictured above), army chef, probationary police constable, civil servant and serial killer. What people know about or remember is 1983 when …
Exemplary case history to sham The posters on the wall say it all: teenage girls and their heroes of the time, David Soul and Paul Michael Glaser, the stars of Starsky & Hutch plant the so-called Enfield Poltergeist firmly in the late 1970s. Since the Daily Mirror broke the story in 1977, the remarkable events …
Need a new writer? Send for a supersub ‘Bill Bryson is laying down his pen and retiring from books’ Ben Macintre wrote in The Times on October 16 2020. The remainder of this entertaining piece continued as follows: The funny, insightful, amiable, furry and hugely popular American writer will be missed, and nowhere …