I wasn’t surprised, then, by the video of a French policemen shooting a teenager of Algerian descent during a routine traffic stop. The teenager was 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk. In the days ...

Congratulations to Glasgow crime scribe Callum McSorley on the publication of his second novel, Paperboy. A terrific read, though the Diary was especially impressed by page 13, which perhaps holds ...