in spiked October 30, 2009

Steve McQueen, without the car chase
BBC Radio 4’s brave choice to rework the ultra-visual Bullittshowed that old-school noir can still be entertaining

in spiked October 23, 2009

‘My name’s Josie... and I have a penis’

Age 8 and Wanting a Sex Change took an unusually empathic look at ‘gender dysphoria’ amongst children.

in Culture Wars, October 16, 2009

Children’s rites

'I'm Adult! Aren't I': Understanding Juvenile Delinquency and Creating Adults out of Children: The Case For A Formal Rite of Passage, by Geoffrey Ben-Nathan (Rubin Mass 2009)

in spiked October 16, 2009

Giving animals human motivations: that’s Life

Like so many nature series, David Attenborough’s latest show is visually stunning but built on childish storytellinga

in forth October 12, 2009

Sinn Farage?

Ukip and Sinn Féin share a common gene-pool

in spiked October 10, 2009

‘To coventrate’: destroy a city from the air

A documentary about the Luftwaffe bombing of Coventry in 1940 challenged prejudices about both Germans and Brits.