me and what I do

'A marvellous book'  - James Flint,  New Scientist

'a wonderful writer' - A.C. Grayling, Literary Review

'yet another brilliant book' - Neal Ascherson, London Observer

'a talented and witty writer' - Paul Harvey FRS, Times Higher Education Supplement

As We Know It: Coming to Terms with an Evolved Mind

Granta, 1999.

"Utterly fascinating ... a beautiful and moving picture of evolution." - Andrew Marr, Observer

Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground

Latest edition Granta, 2003.

"The best, most perceptive and most authoritative account of the British drug scene ever." - Will Self

Interview about Dope Girls, Waterstone's Online.

 The Chemical Generation and its Ancestors: Dance Crazes and Drug Panics across Eight Decades (International Journal of Drugs Policy 8/3, 1997)

The Race Gallery: The Return of Racial Science

Jonathan Cape, 1995.

Chapter 11:  The Seacoast of Macedonia
 

Darwin@LSE

NATO - Suzanne Treister

Materiel World (essay for Suzanne Treister's NATO project)

Trust

MPs must be told what we expect before trust can blossom again (Times 22 June 2009)

Who can you trust? (New Statesman 26 June 2008)

Evolutionary thinking

Review of Peter Forbes's Dazzled and Deceived (London Independent 30 October 2009)

Review of Richard Dawkins's The Greatest Show on Earth (London Independent 18 September 2009)

Did Charles Darwin believe in racial inequality? (London Independent 30 January 2009)

Review of Michael Boulter's Darwin's Garden (London Independent 25 July 2008)

Review of Richard Fortey's Dry Store Room No. 1 (London Independent 15 February 2008)

Review of James D. Watson's Avoid Boring People: Lessons from a Life in Science and J. Craig Venter's  A Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life (London Independent 2 November 2007)

Review of Stephen Murdoch's IQ: The Brilliant Idea That Failed (London Independent 20 July 2007)

Review of Steve Jones's Coral: A Pessimist in Paradise and Mark Lynas's  Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (London Independent 13 April 2007)

Review of Michael Ruse's Darwinism and its Discontents and George Levine's Darwin Loves You (London Independent 13 January 2007)

Ideas: Neanderthals  (New Statesman 30 October 2006)

Review of Richard Dawkins's The God Delusion (London Independent 20 September 2006)

Ideas: Sex on the Brain : on sex differences (New Statesman 7 August 2006)

Savannahstan: Beyond Africa and Asia (author's version of 'Made in Savannahstan', New Scientist 1 July 2006)

Review of Lewis Wolpert's Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief (London Independent 21 April 2006)

Review of Daniel Dennett's Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (London Independent 10 March 2006)

Review of Robert Sapolsky's Monkeyluv, and Other Lessons on Our Lives as Animals (London Independent 11 January 2006)

Review of Steven Mithen's The Singing Neanderthals (London Independent 29 July 2005)

Ebu Gogo, Dwarf or Hobbit? (author's version of 'The Little Troublemaker', New Scientist 18 June 2005)

Review of Ian McEwan's Saturday (London Independent 4 February 2005)

John Maynard Smith 1920 - 2004

Darwin Day and the Peppered Moths (Independent on Sunday London section 29 February 2004)

John Maynard Smith (New Statesman 14 July 2003)

Review of Steven Pinker's The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature (London Independent 14 September 2002)

Unity is Health: An Evolutionary Left (author's version of 'An Evolutionary Left', Prospect October 2001)

Market Eugenics (Prospect May 2000)

Handaxes: Products of Sexual Selection? Marek Kohn & Steven Mithen (Antiquity 73, 1999)

Views for the Left - Peter Singer (London Independent on Sunday 24 May 1998)

Cinderella Revisited - Martin Daly and Margo Wilson (London Independent on Sunday 24 November 1996)

Drive an Escort, not a Ferrari, and be happy - Robert Frank (London Independent on Sunday 16 June 1996)

Polish questions

How Britain can help Poles (newstatesman.com, 5 June 2008

A Very Modern Migration: Poles in Britain (Catalyst March 2007)

Review of James Hopkin's Winter Under Water (London Independent 24 February 2007)

Ideas: Enemies of the People: on populism (New Statesman 28 August 2006)

Poland's Beacon for Europe (openDemocracy 25 October 2005)

Race

It Depends What You Mean by Difference (from 30:At the Turning of the Tide, Commission for Racial Equality, November 2006)

Ideas: Colour Shift: on race and science (New Statesman 12 June 2006)

Review of Joel N. Shurkin's Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age (New Statesman 3 July 2006)

This Racist Undercurrent in the Tide of Genetic Research (London Guardian 17 January 2006)

Genes and the Nation State (Independent on Sunday London section 16 March 2003)

So What Tribe Do You Belong To? (New Statesman 30 July 2001)

Unknown Knowns: The Relationship between Inequality and Health (conference paper, September 2006)

Ideas: From Top to Bottom : on equality (New Statesman 10 July 2006)

Review of Richard Wilkinson's The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier (Prospect September 2005)

Why an Unequal  Society is an Unhealthy Society  (New Statesman 26 July 2004)

Review of Michael Marmot's Status Syndrome (London Independent, 18 June 2004)

Down Town (The Brighton Moment)

All my articles on the New Statesman site

Believing in Change: Darwin, Lincoln, Obama: lecture , Royal Society of Edinburgh, 5.30pm 13 November 2009.

Politics UK, BBC World Service 27 June 2009, on trust and politics.

Thinking Allowed, 'Cocaine Girls in the West End', presented by Laurie Taylor, BBC Radio 4.

Thinking Allowed, on Trust, with Onora O'Neill; presented by Laurie Taylor, BBC Radio 4.

Interview with ReadySteadyBook

Between Apes and Angels: Representing the Darker Implications of Darwinism: video podcast for Endless Forms: Darwin and the Visual Arts, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (exhibition runs until 4 Ocrtober).