Oliver James’s assertions are unhelpful and risk demonising peopleIn more than 30 years of clinical practice, mostly in general practice, I have encountered much mental illness and experienced it in family members also. To polarise the debate between o…

A profile of neurocriminologist Adrian Raine contained a paragraph that misrepresented the views of the neuroscientist David Eagleman. It implied that Eagleman believed the possession of particular genes resulted in criminal behaviour. This is not his …

Officers must be held to account when there’s a death in police custody if the force is to regain the public’s trustThe main role of the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is to bring the full facts to light when independently investigatin…

It is always hard for an American president in the second term, but both his country and the world need Obama to show strength and courage and put scandal behind himIt is a simple fact of American politics that power starts to fade away from a second-t…

Evidence on academies so far shows they do not compare wellWill Hutton’s interesting analysis of the social consequences of the segregation of privately educated students from those in state-funded schools concluded (surprisingly and without evidence, …

It’s time to engage with Latin America and pursue alternatives to the present policyYou wouldn’t know it from listening to UK officials but a game-changing debate is taking place in the Americas about the war on drugs. There is a growing belief that th…

Union delegates declare that Michael Gove’s policies are not in the best interests of children, parents or schoolsHeadteachers have passed a vote of no confidence in the government’s education policies, declaring that Michael Gove’s policies are not in…

Getting it Right is Amber Curtis’s highly commended film in the 16-18 age group of the Intergenerational Foundation young film makers’ short film competition. In this film, Amber interviews three generations of the Curtis family to discover if it is re…

Maggie Boyle to leave post months after operations at LGI children’s heart unit were suspended over high death ratesAn NHS trust at the centre of a row over death rates for children’s heart surgery is to replace its chief executive.Maggie Boyle will le…

Britain still nurses some deep official collective need to remember epochal conflictsThis week, it was the Dambusters – their wartime air raids against German dams commemorated once again, 70 years on. Last week, it was the Arctic convoys — their s…