Ruxton Is Ringwood Publishing's Best Seller for 2021
Final sales figures for all Ringwood Publishing's books for 2021 are now in for all formats, paperback and ebooks, and for all areas, UK...
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Tom Wood
Feb 16, 20222 min read
Partygate lynch mob should ask themselves: would they have eaten the cake?
Read my latest column in the Scotsman, from 14th February 2022. Never mind the Russian tanks massed on Ukraine’s border, the...
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Tom Wood
Feb 1, 20222 min read
Rangers malicious prosecution case highlights the problems caused by a compensation culture
A recent event made me reflect on the increasing tendency for institutional failure to be monetarised. Not so long ago, public bodies...
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Tom Wood
Jan 18, 20222 min read
Scotland's justice system would be improved if victims were involved more
Here's my latest Scotsman column, published this week (17th January 2022). I was disappointed to learn that so far no victim of crime had...
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Tom Wood
Jan 6, 20223 min read
Cybercrime is only set to increase in 2022 and we must be increasingly on our guard
A very Happy New Year to you. Here's my first Scotsman column for 2022. If you were unfortunate enough to be a victim of crime in 2021,...
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Tom Wood
Dec 20, 20212 min read
A year in Scottish justice: Police and courts are increasingly being dragged into political disputes
Read what I have to say in my latest Scotsman column, published 20th December: At the year’s end, it’s right to look back at the past 12...
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Tom Wood
Dec 7, 20211 min read
The Expendables
In 1940, three German spies were dumped in rough seas a mile offshore in the Moray Firth. But it turned out they were no match for...
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Tom Wood
Dec 7, 20212 min read
Police Scotland issuing more Tasers to officers is a 'sticking plaster' response to rising violence
Read what I have to say in my latest Scotsman column, published 6th December: It came as a shock when a recent survey of Scottish police...
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Tom Wood
Dec 1, 20211 min read
Feedback from the Judges at the Scottish National Book Awards...
As many of you may know, my true crime book Ruxton the First Modern Murder was in the running for the most prestigious literary award in...
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Tom Wood
Nov 23, 20212 min read
COP26 climate summit: Whether or not it was a success, the unsung heroes did their job...
behind the scenes..... Here's my latest Scotsman column published on 22 November 2021. Whether the outcome of the COP26 conference is all...
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Tom Wood
Nov 16, 20211 min read
My Latest Works Ruxton the First Modern Murder is Nominated for the Most Prestigious Literary Award
I’m absolutely thrilled to announce my true crime book Ruxton the First Modern Murder is in the running for the most prestigious literary...
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Tom Wood
Nov 10, 20211 min read
New True Crime Podcast by Award-Winning US Firm Features Brutal Killing of Edinburgh Sex Worker..
...to appeal for information about one of Scotland's most notorious, unsolved murders. Back in April 1983, 27-year-old Sheila Anderson, a...
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Tom Wood
Nov 9, 20212 min read
Police Scotland's Chief Constable Iain Livingstone just got a big vote of confidence...
.....but there's much work still to be done. Here's my latest column in the Scotsman (published 8th November 2021). Hidden behind the...
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Tom Wood
Oct 26, 20211 min read
COP26: World leaders need peace and quiet to save us from climate change.
Police Scotland's task is to ensure they get it.... Read what I have to say, in my latest Scotsman column (published 25th October 2021),...
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Tom Wood
Oct 12, 20213 min read
Sarah Everard's murderer Wayne Couzens acted like a serial killer. He may have done this before
My latest column in The Scotsman (published 11 October 2021) is out! With the exception of a few political despots, it is hard to recall...
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Tom Wood
Sep 29, 20212 min read
Scotland's old laws, like hamesucken and plagium, reveal how lawless and violent society was
Here's my latest column in the Scotsman, published 27th September 2021. It was good to see the charge of ‘hamesucken’ make a comeback a...
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Tom Wood
Sep 15, 20212 min read
Police Scotland: 71,000 missed calls is a lot, but there's more to the story than you might think
We learned last week that some 40 per cent of non-emergency calls to police were abandoned before they were answered. At 71,000, it adds...
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Tom Wood
Sep 8, 20212 min read
Arming the police – be careful what you wish for (1919 Magazine - September 2021)
It seems obvious. As society becomes more violent and more guns fall into the hands of criminals, we need to arm our police. After all,...
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Tom Wood
Sep 2, 20212 min read
Plymouth shooting: Firearms controls are fit for purpose if police enforce them with mass shootings
The recent shootings in Plymouth were sickening. Unlike the USA, we are not inured to mass shootings. It was tragic enough that a clearly...
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Tom Wood
Aug 26, 20212 min read
Why Scotland's drug-death crisis may take years to improve (16/08/2021 - The Scotsman)
As usual the same excuses have been trotted out – Maggie Thatcher or the years of recession or the fact that drug legislation is reserved...
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