Reel time
Andrew Tudor salutes Ken Loach's unique vision
Culture
Triumph of light
Distinguished musicologist and composer Wilfred Mellers, the man who first compared The Beatles to Schubert, celebrates the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Wilfrid Mellers died on 16 May 2008
Thinker: William Shakespeare
Continuing our series of thinkers who have been important for humanism, Brian McClinton puts in a bid for Shakespeare.
Meme Wars (part 1)
Evolution cannot explain culture: there are limits to the uses of Darwinism, says Adam Kuper
Mussolini in knickers
What's so funny about all those Twankeys and Trots strutting onto centre stage up and down the country? Sally Feldman defrocks the pantomime dame
Meme Wars (part 2)
Natural selection applies to everything. Ideas evolve just as life does, says Susan Blackmore
No short cuts
Andrew Tudor struggles to pin down the enigma of Robert Altman
Judgement days
Laurie Taylor finds out how long we've got
Occidental tourist
Stephen Howe is baffled by the same old story
Lost gods
Andrew Mueller on the ghost of punk