Man has always looked to the heavens.” When I was teaching a space history course at undergraduate level, an inordinate number of students wanted to start their human spaceflight essays with some...
In 2002 Martin Amis said: “After a couple of hours at their desks on September 12, 2001, all the writers on earth were reluctantly considering a change of occupation.” Many said that 9/11 could not,...
Tristan Bekinschtein recommends a challenge to our notions of consciousness and cognition
This is the end…my beautiful friend…” Jim Morrison’s voice filters through the thin walls of my Travelodge suite as the lorries rumble along the M25 into the dark heart of suburbia.This is going to...
Bonobos could teach God a thing or two about morality. If you have heard of these great apes, it is probably because their libidinous nature evokes that of a better-known primate depicted by...
Neil Rennie on the observers and the observed in global cultural exchanges of the 18th century
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
Sheila Rowbotham on a portrait of a thinker who was neither infallible nor entirely prophetic
Paul Magrs was flabbergasted when an institution he had left almost a decade before and had not heard from since asked to use his work to demonstrate impact in the REF. Here, he sets down the...
The viva, the final hurdle to gaining a PhD, is labour-intensive, not conducted to any national standard and is dreaded by students who fear an examiner will capriciously halt their career. Is it...
Fit to printA group of illustration students are bringing traditional printmaking skills back to the defunct press room of a local newspaper. The former press room at the Bournemouth Echo building,...
Margaret Thatcher was committed to freedom, but under her reign state power over universities increased. Vernon Bogdanor assesses her legacy to education
Malcolm Gillies discusses Parsifal and Wagner’s bicentenary
Toby Miller recalls a paralysing encounter with terror in the skies and asks: in my shoes, would you have reacted differently?
Complaining about being kept in the dark on undercover reporting in North Korea is peevish of the LSE, believes Tim Luckhurst