The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

So much has been said on the Trayvon Martin case already. It feels a little bit like World War I – when you try to explain that France is fi...

In Egypt, a Dutch female reporter who was reporting on demonstrations in Tahrir Square  was savagely raped . Apparently she was an intern co...

I loathe graffiti. Courts tend to view it as a petty crime, just kids letting off steam. But I find it aesthetically angering in a way tha...

The new Judge Dredd movie is actually surprisingly good. It's at 76% on Rotten Tomatoes , which is unusually high for an action movie. ...

I keep telling 'em , but they just don't listen . Not a Shylock Holmes reader, clearly.

The whole furore (mercifully dying down now) over Whitney Houston’s death gave me cause to reflect on the odd way that the average person of...

The worst mistakes are the ones you don't realise you're making. The most poignant mistakes are the ones that you don't realise ...

A long-ish quote, but I thought this summary of the broad issues of police brutality from Taki's Magazine was interesting : Dark decades...

Article 1 - British Police spring into action to arrest woman for saying nasty racist things on a train: A woman has been arrested after a...

First State Superannuation  is a company in Australia that provides superannuation funds (the equivalent of America's 401K-type plans fo...

This was the prediction, regarding the leaked nude photos of Scarlett Johansson: I'm going to go out on a limb here, and make a wild p...

( image credit ) So it turns out that Scarlett Johansson is the latest celebrity to have nude photos of her leaked onto the internet. (A ...

The Uber Blog has this hilarious post on prostitution arrest data : Apparently prostitution arrests in San Francisco go up on Wednesdays. ...