Slavery
Where to open your brothel: an international comparison
The best places to open a brothel The Commons all-party group on prostitution has called for a Scandinavian-style law where…
What 12 Years a Slave gets wrong – and The Book Thief gets right
Damn, damn, damn! It has to be me, and all these years I’ve been thinking it was Hollywood. By the…
Christianity is the foundation of our freedoms
If there is one underlying source from which all our other societal problems stem, it is surely this: we no…
Ferdinand Mount's diary: Supermac was guilty!
You have to hand it to Supermac. Fifty years after the event, he is still running rings round them. The…
Deborah Ross: 12 Years a Slave harrowed me to within an inch of my life
Steve McQueen’s 12 Years a Slave goes directly to the heart of American slavery without any shilly-shallying — unlike The…
The Butler, about a black domestic in the White House, is too painfully obvious
The Butler tells the story of an African–American butler at the White House who served eight American presidents over three…
Carlos Acosta, the great dancer, should be a full-time novelist
Carlos Acosta, the greatest dancer of his generation, grew up in Havana as the youngest of 11 black children. Money…
