Ambridge

I’ve just been in Ukraine, where the basic barometer of a city’s security status is whether McDonald’s has reopened (open in Kyiv, still closed in Kharkiv). In Ambridge in the English Midlands, the basic barometer of having your wits about…

As Happy Valley returns to the BBC, I’m put in mind of the final episode of the second season of that work of televisual genius. Sgt Catherine Cawood, as she reflects on the gory sequence of murder and attempted suicide she has uncovered at…