Part THREE: The unexpected reason behind London’s knife crime bloodbath – and how it’s turned murder into a moneymaking industry, writes Harriet Sergeant
A three-part special investigation by Harriet Sergeant who’s talked to gang members, grieving parents and horrified hospital staff In August,…
PART TWO: Just 27 seconds of savagery left Charlie – and one of his killers – bleeding to death on a roadside. This chilling account exposes the sheer folly of Sadiq Khan’s softly-softly stance on knife crime
A three-part special investigation by Harriet Sergeant who’s talked to gang members, grieving parents and horrified hospital staff Yesterday, the…
PART ONE: London streets run with blood under virtue signalling Mayor Khan
A three-part special investigation by Harriet Sergeant who’s talked to gang members, grieving parents and horrified hospital staff Harry Pitman,…
Ghost children: the pupils who never came back after lockdown
‘There was this guy in my year who never came back to school after lockdown,’ a 14-year-old girl at a…
The Iranian regime is at war with its own children
Twenty-two-year-old Hadis Najafi does not look like a foot soldier in a revolution. In the last film of Najafi alive,…
Why is Sadiq Khan decriminalising dangerous drugs?
Sadiq Khan is considering a surprising initiative to stop the killings on our streets – a pilot scheme that would decriminalise…
The hypocrisy of ‘progressive’ middle-class drug users is ruining lives
Progressive millennials protest vehemently about racism, pronouns and the environment but have a blind spot when it comes to the…
Liberal elites are out of touch on law and order
‘I was cycling along Regent Street with a friend when we ran into a Black Lives Matter demonstration. A young…
Teenagers are dying from our failure to confront London violence
We have abandoned boys to a surreal and terrifying landscape where gang life offers protection A former gangster was returning…
How Top Boys topple down crime’s ladder
Too many prisoners rejoin society with no education, stable housing or job prospects. No surprise that more than half reoffend…
Drill, the brutal rap that fuels gang murder
‘Drillers’ have turned death into a money-making industry A young man in a grey tracksuit and silver mask looks straight…
The homeless are not all helpless victims – and their needs are more complex than we admit
The rise in rough sleeping is a complex cocktail of immigration, crime and despair. On the streets of Manchester on…
Charity trustees should know when things are going wrong
They Trustees share the same legal obligations as company directors, writes Harriet Sergeant. Whose job is it to regulate the…
How to spot a charity snake
How do you know if a charity is changing lives? The government clearly has no idea. How do we judge a…
Kids Company founder Camila Batmanghelidjh: How the world fell for this ‘ultimate matriarch’
To children, MPs and celebrities, Kids Company head Camila Batmanghelidjh seemed every inch the mother-figure. But is she a saint…
A genius for seducing the rich: Kids Company founder was expert at convincing wealthy to help vulnerable youngsters, says HARRIET SERGEANT
Nearly a decade has passed since I first met Camila Batmanghelidjh. She was holding a meeting with a dozen businessmen,…
Kids Company: Did good PR mask deeper failings?
There is no doubt that many of Kids Company’s staff do a heroic job. But to succeed, charities need scrutiny…
The big idea that may redeem Tuggy Tug
Tuggy Tug declared: ‘I can’t wait to get out of this place because I won’t be coming back’. I was…
Fixing Broken Britain
Gang members, like those who rioted last week, say that here are only two things will stop another flare-up: jobs…
These rioters are Tony Blair’s children
Nihilism and disorder have been fostered by the state. On the third day of the London riots I received a telephone call from Mash, a member of a Brixton…
Prison’s just what a young yob needs: structure and discipline
As Learco Chindamo is about to be released claiming to be reformed, Harriet Sergeant finds jail is also working wonders…
Harriet Sergeant: My edgy summer in the ’hood
Summer in the inner city is not complete without a riot. I should know. I started my very own. We…
The state just won’t let Tuggy go straight
After a former gangster enthused him, a hoodie was ready to reform. Then the system crushed his hopes In a…
The state sector’s big evil: it does not sack
It has not been a great week for the state sector. On Friday, Basildon University hospital pleaded guilty to health…
Schools are churning out the unemployable
Eight million adults are ‘economically inactive’ — which means that one in five people of working age do not have…
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