First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a Victorian first novel published after the author's death: "The other day in looking over my papers,...
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Why our capital is always revolting
Violent London
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A life of high drama, dudgeon and dilemma
Nature and Mortality
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So what exactly is natural?
The Concept of Nature
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History of curiosity is written on the walls
20th Century Pattern Design
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Witness boxes and lunchboxes
Benchmark
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The art of rising from the ashes
Japanese Prints during the Allied Occupation 1945-1952
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Laurie Taylor column
Dear Everybody Greetings from Scarborough. Well, I say Scarborough but in fact I'm happily ensconced in a lovely little guest house on the moors behind Robin Hood's Bay. Our nearest spot on the...
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Leader: Rebel MPs must face reality over top-up fees bill
Once a government is perceived to be in trouble - even one with the protection of a landslide majority - every contentious issue is billed as the one that could bring it down. First it was Iraq, then...
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Leader: Visa charges will harm market viability of UK
For overseas students who are paying tens of thousands of pounds for a British degree, another £155 for a visa extension (or even £250 for a so-called premium service) might seem a drop in the ocean...
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Curiosity made us great, but it's waning in the West
The decline of intellectual quests and the rise of dumbing down in western universities will make the next century an eastern one, argues Charles Pasternak By the end of this century, North America...
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Labour's 'spineless' stand up to Blair
Government whips are right to be scared in the run-up to the autumn vote on tuition fees. Philip Cowley charts the swelling ranks of rebel MPs. Until recently, it was the political science equivalent...
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Primal life force under the ice
Scientists exhuming mammoth remains must respect the beast's mythic status, argues David Anderson. I met my first woolly mammoth in the spring of 1995. I was travelling with Evenki reindeer herders...
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Creationists put in their place by mite of Darwin...
...and that's not all that happens when a biologist turns his hand to comic books. Stephen Phillips meets a man to whom honey bees are superheroes If you thought comics were mindless entertainment...
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Vacation? Not from vocation
Terry Eagleton once spent August teaching hippy nuns and recovering from doing very little during term. But, he says, today's academics are more likely to scale a mountain of books than the...