Francisco Ceballos
Francisco Ceballos is a biologist with a PhD from the University of Santiago de Compostela. His research combines genetics, bioinformatics and statistical modelling to study how human history and health are shaped by patterns of homozygosity and inbreeding. He tweets at @Ceballos_Gene
Don’t keep it in the family
The disturbing genetic risks of first-cousin marriage
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Amnesty irrational
Gender identity ideologues cannot get away with baseless smears any more
How Bridget Phillipson earned an F
Phillipson’s big ambitions were reduced to performative stunts
Who pays for Manchesterism?
Burnham spent nine years extracting money from Westminster, now he’ll be reaching directly into taxpayers’ pockets
The goading life
How the transgressive media of the 1990s influenced, and was eaten by, online culture
The migrant crime cover up
Why is Labour fighting to keep migrant crime statistics secret?
Russia’s useful internet addicts
No, Russia is not a beleaguered outpost of European values
Starmer’s Indian takeaway
The Government’s India trade deal makes hiring imported workers significantly cheaper than employing British ones
Right-wing fight night
A debate over the future of right-wing politics in Britain offered little heat and less light
The problem with Palantir
The software company is attempting to redefine politics for the worse
A failed war on fags
The black market has taken over the tobacco trade Down Under
An anti-gambling bonanza
Don’t expect a lot of objective and thorough research from a new “gambling harms” organisation
The Boriswave is here to stay
Labour’s internal row over settlement was always theatre; the destination was permanent residency all along
The resistible centrism of Mark Gatiss
Why a centre-left worldview struggles to understand dissent
When violence is its own reward
How do we deal with people who kill for the sake of killing?
