Humour bypass? 1
How come John Armitage, co-editor of Cultural Politics , doesn't find Laurie Taylor funny (Letters, January 21)? If, deep down, he fears that his journal might come into the professor's sights, the...
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Humour bypass? 3
And I think it is about time that somebody told John Armitage that he does not have a sense of humour and has not had one for quite a number of years now. Charles Oppenheim Loughborough University
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Humour bypass? 2
And I think it is about time for the silent majority to speak up: those of us who, when inundated with work, have still made time to read Laurie Taylor's column. How often we have smiled in quiet...
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Humour bypass? 4
John Armitage is to be pitied if he doesn't find Laurie Taylor funny. I'm not an academic but my wife is. My eavesdropping indicates he has his finger on the pulse of academe. But perhaps reality in...
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If you can't beat 'em...
The unexamined assumption in Kieron O'Hara's otherwise persuasive piece on conservatism is the notion that the contemporary Conservative Party is conservative in the way he delineates that ideology...
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Finance failures
"If you value what this sector delivers, you will be prepared to sacrifice salary," says Gill Ball ("Finance chiefs pocket 6 per cent rise", January 21). Tosh. If they could get those jobs at twice...
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Essential science
It was shocking to read an academic arguing that science had no place in the abortion debate (Soapbox, January 21). Good science is exactly what we need to inform policymaking in this area. Not the...
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'We have our eye on you...so watch out'
Do websites such as Campus Watch seek balance or do they undermine integrity? Michael North reports Israeli academic Neve Gordon was not too bothered by the image of himself transmuting into Hitler...
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Before you build that nanobot...
A social scientist is posing awkward questions on behalf of the public at Cambridge's new centre for nanoresearch. Jon Turney joins him in the corner Cambridge University's new nanoscience centre is...
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Dirty Den's very public lesson about private lives
Our monthly guide to some of the conferences taking place around the world Historians say EastEnders not only won the BBC viewers, it also changed society. Harriet Swain reports Dirty Den and David...
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Conference watch: February
Darwin College lecture series 2005: Why Apes and Humans Kill , Richard Wrangham, February 4; Conflict in the Middle East , Lisa Anderson, February 11; The Roots of Warfare , Barry Cunliffe, February...
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Instant expert: Shopping
Conference: Shopping, Retail and Leisure, 1500-2000. Wolverhampton University, February 2 What's it about? This is a workshop organised by the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution (...
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What's a nice Trot doing in a place like this?
Chris Bunting kicks off our special on academic freedom with a look at a group of rightwing ex-Reds infiltrating the media - or so the theory goes Everyone loves a conspiracy, and the tale of Frank...
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Cast your discomfort aside, in matters of life and death, debate is the only thing that counts
The murder of a Dutch film-maker should make us more, not less, willing to air our views, says Paul Cliteur On November 5, the Dutch film-maker and writer Theo van Gogh was murdered in the streets of...
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Today's news
Universities pay the price of European expansion The number of students from new European Union member states has more than doubled in a year. Such students are entitled to apply for places to UK...