BAME
Them there genes
Baroness Lawrence’s report downplays the importance of genetic factors that predispose BAME communities to Covid-19 vulnerability
The BAME killer – why Covid-19 is so serious for ethnic minorities
Is social deprivation the reason, as Sadiq Khan suggests?
Up-and-down towns
The rise and fall of English towns in the 1960s and 80s
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
Enjoy some old Baileys
Few literary activities could give quite so much pleasure as reading the work of this brilliant but overlooked novelist
Into the setting sun…
Next summer, head west to Pembrokeshire
The shell shock of the arts
How will the art world respond to its narrative shock?
Twitter has always been toxic
Bluesky is a reminder of an earlier form of smug spitefulness
How to end the free speech crisis
The right must plan to demolish the four pillars of Britain’s stifling anti-speech laws
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
Who are the Scottish Conservatives?
The election of Russell Findlay to lead the Scottish Conservatives reveals a party that doesn’t know what it stands for
Dissertations and their discontents
PhD funding is a valid subject for debate but social media mobs are not the answer
Boris: the PM who could do no wrong
This must be in competition for the most inaccurate work of non-fiction since … well, since Johnson’s last book
