When public sector organisations - the police, NHS trusts, the BBC, councils - are fined, who pays?

Mark Wallace, the executive editor of the ConservativeHome website, raises an issue that has no doubt occasionally troubled most of us. To be clear, I'm perfectly happy...

Theresa May - the "nanny state" social justice warrior in No. 10

I suspect many - perhaps most - right-wingers and conservatives (and quite a few centrists and left-wingers) are so horrified at the thought of the Four Horsepersons of the Apocalypse (Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbott, John McDonnell and Angela Rayner) taking charge of the country...

"Thank you for calling 999. Please choose one of the following options..."

...If someone has written something hurty about you on social media, or you've read something hurty about Islam, Muslims, blacks, gays, women, transexuals, transvestites, lesbians, or the disabled,  or you're a member of a left-liberal pet victim group and you think someone might have looked at you in a funny way on the tube, or you got drunk last night and had sex with some bloke but now feel embarrassed about it and would like to take it out on him by accusing him of rape and ruining his life, press '1'...

The great public sector cultural Marxist juggernaut rolls on...

Non-cultural Marxists (i.e. the vast majority of us) be like...

The latest examples of madness, mayhem and mirth from social media...

Very bad taste, that. Mind you, England not playing at the World Cup would prevent...

Cressida Dick's brilliant idea for stopping stabbing in London...

Wow! Thank God for some fresh thinking...

Jack the Stripper: the '60s London serial killer time forgot

His first victim was probably Elizabeth Figg, a prostitute whose partially-clothed body was found next to the Thames in Dukes Meadows, Chiswick, in 1959. She had died of asphyxiation, but there was no sign of sexual violence. His next victim may have been Gwynneth Rees, whose body was dumped at a council refuse disposal site in Townmead Road, Mortlake, in 1963. What's certain is that the six prostitutes who were abducted, murdered and found dumped in various sites around West London between February 1964 and February 1965 were all victims of the same serial killer. Because seven of the victims were found partially clothed, the murderer was given the nickname Jack the Stripper, but the case eventually became known by the rather more prosaic and inaccurate title, the Hammersmith Nude Murders - only some of the dead women were abducted from, or found in, Hammersmith, and they weren't entirely naked. The murder hunt was the largest in British criminal history until then,...

Sadiq Khan adopts the sensible "stop and search" policy abandoned by our drippingly wet PM

In 2015, it was:

Today it's:

Good boy! What a hero...

If you enjoy watching...

Initial Interrogation Quiz - name that TV detective series...

I recently had fun devising a couple of rounds for a quiz night organised by my wife. Now that it's over, here's one of those rounds. The one-word titles of these 18 TV detective series consist of a surname, first name, middle name or the name of a place. Using the initial letter and the clue, give the programme title (you can find the answers below):

1.  K (lollipops)
2.  R (Edinburgh)
3.  I  (wheelchair)
4.  W (diabetes)
5.  L (dreaming spires)
6.  E (dreaming spires)
7.  L (Protestant)
8.  G (vicar)
9.  C (flower)
10. C (mac)
11. C (explosive)
12. B (Stockholm/beer)
13. S (Gerry Rafferty)
14. V (Land Rover)
15. W (pasties)
16. T (Glasgow)
17. S (Island)
18. M (OCD)

I've no idea how I would have done - but I reckon anything above 9 is decent, more than 12 is really good, and 15 or above means you probably need to get out more.

Here are the answers:

"How do we get ahead of crazy if we don't know how crazy thinks" - Netflix's "Mindhunter" series is a stunner

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Best comment on the hysterical reaction to over-sexed politicians - yesterday's Telegraph letters page

No, I'm not belittling the women who have come forward recently to talk about their...

Next, a measured, sensible and unbiased look at the week's main news - with just a splash of sarcasm

Now there's a slogan I can really get behind! If that was the Freudian Slip of the Week, this was the Oxymoron of the Week:

Chelsea Handler, the former US soldier convicted of espionage, picks a fight with Ben Shapiro. Bad move.

United States Army Private First Class Bradley E. Manning was sentenced to 35 years imprisonment in 2013 for a whole host of offences, but mainly for leaking almost half a million US army documents. While in prison, Manning made the ultimate sacrifice and opted for gender reassignment surgery - unfortunately not performed without anaesthetic by fellow-inmates - and morphed into gorgeous, pouting Chelsea.  (I wonder how she's coping with the menstrual cycle.) As he left office, Barack Obama - who evidently can't resist a transgender traitor - commuted the latest US Army poster gal's sentence to seven years (that's 80% off for...well, for being a wonderful human being, I guess). So now he/she/whatever is out and proud and tweeting. Only he/she/whatever hasn't yet learned the basic lesson that, whoever you engage with on social media, make sure it isn't the bladed weapon that is the conservative commentator, Ben Shapiro - that's like juggling with razors:

My latest addiction: CBS Reality's "Cold Blood" and "Medical Mysteries" series

My latest addiction is to the American true crime series, Medical Detectives and Cold Blood, which are currently running on the CBS Reality channel. I usually polish off one of each before going to bed. Until recently, I might have spent that time watching Sky News or Fox, but, for anyone of a conservative disposition, the news has been unbearable of late: before resuming my former nightly habit I may have to wait for Peak Corbyn to pass, and for America to finally admit that the whole Trump/Russia narrative has been invented by Democrats suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome. Meanwhile, accounts of murder investigations are filling the gap effectively. After last night's fix, I found myself wondering why I enjoy these programmes so much - and what they tell us about violent crime in America:

I'll sleep easier in my bed, thanks to the Met Police's relentless war on hate crime...

They reinforced the message earlier today with the following tweet:

Diane Abbott has come bottom of the Maths class. Again. BBC headmistress Jo Coburn is furious.

I have been saying for years that the Shadow Home Secretary, Diane Abbott...

In case you only get your news from the BBC, here are the names of the 29 people charged yesterday with historic sex offences in Huddersfield

I missed this story yesterday, what with the blanket coverage of the murderous terrorist attack in Westminster on Wednesday (or "dangerous and violent incidents" as Jeremy Corbyn prefers to call them). I only became aware of it thanks to a link to a Daily Mail item in a tweet this morning. The story was headlined:

Twenty seven men are charged with dozens of historic sex offences including rape and trafficking against 18 women aged as young as 11 in Huddersfield

The charges include rape, sexual activity with a child, child neglect and child abduction. I read the names of those charged with a dispiriting sense of déjà vu. Some sixth sense prompted me to check the BBC website to see how they'd covered the story: not a name in sight...

Immigrant trouble in multiculti Sweden? Move along, please - nothing to see here - it's all good.

Swedish culture being enriched last night:

Apparently, 50 to 60 young men in Rinkeby, a Stockholm suburb with a 75% immigrant...

Two shooters, no conspiracy. It seems the JFK assassination anomalies may have been explained by a ballistics expert in 1992!

The last book I read about the Kennedy assassination was David S. Lifton's massively-detailed 920-page monster, Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, first published in 1981. I think I probably read a new edition of it in the early '90s, quite possibly bought for the plane-ride back from being a member of the BBC news team in Little Rock, Arkansas covering Clinton's 1992 election victory. As far as I remember, Lifton's main focus was on alterations supposedly made to Kennedy's skull (skullduggery?) between the hospital he was first taken to in Dallas after the shooting and the site of the autopsy in Bethesda - alterations which, Lifton alleged, had been made to cover up the number of shooters involved. All I clearly remember now is that I finished the book convinced that (a) there was indeed something odd about the various accounts of how the bullets from Oswald's rifle had behaved, (b) there probably had been another shooter, and (3) there was no conspiracy - Oswald acted alone.