The Price of Safety

Clair Wills: Constance Marten’s Defiance, 14 August 2025

... just raping to raping and murdering.’Ted Bundy was responsible for more than thirty murders; Christopher Wilder abducted twelve women and girls in 1984 and killed eight of them. The prosecution psychologist suggested not only that Gordon would do it again, but that there was no proof he hadn’t done it before. In her statement, the victim asked the ...

The Tower

Andrew O’Hagan, 7 June 2018

... upon the battlements and stare/On the foundations of a house’, sending our imaginations forth to ‘call/Images and memories/From ruin’.On Wednesday, 14 June, people in the community and some who worked in the media, along with certain MPs, began talking up the numbers of casualties, claiming that there ‘had to be’ four hundred or more ...