Them there genes
Baroness Lawrence’s report downplays the importance of genetic factors that predispose BAME communities to Covid-19 vulnerability
Reflections of a scientific humanist
Michael Shermer’s new book is a collection of skilful elucidations of academic ideas
Editors deserve more credit
Christopher Silvester on the essential, and undervalued, part editors play in film and documentary creation
Which gender are you: Neutrois or Two-Spirit?
A brief guide to the British Film Institute’s 22 genders
Women directors screened out
Christopher Silvester on Mark Cousins’s latest documentary
Turning the tide on cancel culture
One man’s crusade against the woke decolonisation of our patriotic anthems
Do mention the war
The Deer Hunter remains the most affecting of Vietnam movies, Christopher Silvester writes
Enemy of orthodoxy
Christopher Silvester reviews Groupthink: A Study in Self-Delusion, By Christopher Booker
The mobster and the Method
Al Capone’s relationship with the movies goes back a long way, writes Christopher Silvester
Lockdown Cinema
Staying frosty in plague times
Strictly Come Tory
Who will win the hearts of the nation?
The death of conservatism?
Individually and collectively, we must choose life
The meaning of depoliticisation
How the establishment made political questions unanswerable
Much more than mere child’s play
Children’s literature is the platform on which everything else is built
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
The far enemy
The motivations for the 9/11 attacks are still misunderstood and moralised
Minimum pricing, maximum annoyance
No one wins when the minimum price for alcohol rises
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
There is more to ethics than “#BeKind”
It is not cruel to fear the consequences of legalising assisted dying
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
