" Despite this ruling, a bill to add discrimination based on subculture affiliation to the definition of hate crime in British law was not presented to parliament.

* Out ( miniseries ), a 1978 British television crime drama starring Tom Bell

The plan for the colony was that it would be the ideal embodiment of the best qualities of British society, that is, no religious discrimination or unemployment and, as it was believed that this would also result in very little crime, no provision was made for a gaol.

Examples of so-called kniferisms include a British television newsreader once referring to the police at a crime scene removing a ' hypodeemic nerdle '; a television announcer once saying that " All the world was thrilled by the marriage of the Duck and Doochess of Windsor " and that word regarding an impending presidential veto had come from " a high White Horse souse " ( instead of " a high White House source "); and during a live broadcast in 1931, radio presenter Harry von Zell accidentally mispronouncing US President Herbert Hoover's name, " Hoobert Heever.

** Community Safety, Enforcement and Policing, responsible for tackling fare evasion on buses, delivering policing services that tackle crime and disorder on public transport in cooperation with the Metropolitan Police Service's Transport Operational Command Unit ( TOCU ) and the British Transport Police.

Cracker is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV and created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern.

Category: British crime films

A U. S. reaction to the cozy conventionality of British murder mysteries was the American " hard-boiled " school of crime writing of Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Mickey Spillane, among others.

Recruited from university by British Intelligence, he supposedly set up his criminal empire as part of an undercover operation to monitor crime in London which got out of hand, to the point where the ' cover ' became more real to Moriarty than his role in British Intelligence.

For example, the British had been fascinated by Edgar Wallace's ( 1875 – 1932 ) crime novels ever since the author set up a competition offering a reward to any reader who could figure out and describe just how the murder in his first book, The Four Just Men ( 1906 ), was committed.

When he was still young and unknown, award-winning British novelist Julian Barnes ( born 1946 ) published some crime novels under the alias Dan Kavanagh.

Four people were hanged for the crime: two British soldiers, a young Continental soldier, and Spooner's wife, Bathsheba, who was charged with instigating the murder.

Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series, produced for the BBC, focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.

The approach of the show, portraying a pathologist as having an active role in the crime investigation, was parodied by British comedic duo French and Saunders as " Witless Silence ".

Category: British crime television series

Even in the UK, he experienced problems: his first British film, The Sleeping Tiger, a 1954 film noir crime thriller, bore the pseudonym Victor Hanbury, rather than his own name, in the credits as director, as the stars of the film, Alexis Smith and Alexander Knox, feared being blacklisted in Hollywood due to working on a film he directed.

In 2009 she was cast as Maggie, a Brighton mother in Ben Wheatley's British crime film Down Terrace.

In 1980, Masterpiece gained a sister series, Mystery !, featuring a mix of contemporary and classic British detective and crime series, such as The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Agatha Christie ’ s Miss Marple and Touching Evil.

" Catchphrase of mentally handicapped British crime lord ' Bob H ' in Sydney based TV series Underbelly

* British Crime Writers Association-1999 Rusty Dagger award for best crime novel of the 1930s.

Category: British crime films

In 2006, he appeared as a regular team captain in the BBC Two quiz show Petrolheads, and is the star of the British crime / comedy / drama film Back In Business, in which he plays Tom Marks.

Parnell next became the centre of public attention when in March and April 1887 he found himself accused by the British newspaper The Times of supporting the brutal murders in May 1882 of the newly appointed Chief Secretary for Ireland, Lord Frederick Cavendish and the Permanent Under-Secretary, Thomas Henry Burke in Dublin's Phoenix Park, and of the general involvement of his movement with crime ( i. e., with illegal organisations such as the IRB ).

Anne Brontë (; 17 January 1820 – 28 May 1849 ) was a British novelist and poet, the youngest member of the Brontë literary family.

Ann Noreen Widdecombe ( born 4 October 1947 ) is a former British Conservative Party politician and has been a novelist since 2000.

Financial backers included Sir Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and possibly the British novelist Jeffrey Archer.

* 1888 – Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright ( d. 1965 )

* Arnold Bennett ( 1867 – 1931 ), British novelist

* 1886 – Ronald Firbank, British novelist ( d. 1926 )

* 1824 – Wilkie Collins, British novelist ( d. 1889 )

Beria is a significant character in the opening chapters of the novel Archangel, written by British novelist Robert Harris.

* 1960 – Jenny Eclair, British comedienne, novelist and actress.

* 1850 – Silas Hocking, British novelist and preacher ( d. 1935 )

* 1910 – Nicholas Monsarrat, British novelist ( d. 1979 )

* 1931 – Arnold Bennett, British novelist ( b. 1867 )

* 1912 – Hilda Nickson, née Hilda Pressley, British novelist ( d. 1977 )

* 1953 – Alan Moore, British comic book writer and novelist

* 1819 – George Eliot, British novelist ( d. 1880 )

* 1970 – Stel Pavlou, British novelist

* 1988 – Jyoti Guptara, British / Swiss novelist

* 1915 – Marghanita Laski, British journalist and novelist ( d. 1988 )

* 1881 – P. G. Wodehouse, British novelist ( d. 1975 )

" British novelist Malcolm Lowry, painter Oskar Kokoschka, orchestra director Wilhelm Furtwängler, and filmmaker Fritz Lang were also fans of Spengler's work.

The insignia was designed by famous English novelist Daphne du Maurier, who was married to the commander of the 1st Airborne Division ( and later the expanded British Airborne Forces ), General Frederick " Boy " Browning.

" He was known for his support of the hostage takers during the Iran hostage crisis and his fatwa calling for the death of British Indian novelist Salman Rushdie.

During the War, the propagandist John Buchan, became the pre-eminent British spy novelist.

Hoping to attract major press coverage, George Rappleyea went so far as to write to the British novelist H. G. Wells asking him to join the defense team.