Outlaw the apathetic
People should be obliged to vote, writes Robert Blackburn, even if they choose 'none of the above' June 7 2001 was a landmark general election for many reasons, among them the dramatic fall in the...
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Hunt for the erotic Walter goes on
The Erotomaniac
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One incredibly long church aisle
Lost Lion of Empire
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Unromantic dinners for all
It's high time a nervous government tackled food policy, says Tim Lang. These three books explore the crisis engulfing the British, European and global food systems. Foot and mouth disease is the...
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Uncle Sam's Latin family
The Americas in the World, around 1850
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Search for care in the community
Restless Nation - Hollow City - American Project
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a former physicist attracted to eastern philosophy: "Modern physics has had a profound...
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Faint echoes of freedom in manacled and migrant
The Many-headed Hydra
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Radicals down tools
It Didn't Happen Here
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King is at liberty to pass on his crown
The Civil Rights Movement
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The Union's untidy hero
Ulysses S. Grant
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Laurie Taylor Column
Enrolment of staff on courses - THES , June 8 Today's seminar is about globalisation. Let's start with a definition. The mature student at the back with the white hair and brown corduroy jacket. Name...
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Letter: Grades of error (1)
Sir Harold Kroto is absolutely correct in saying that a single number performance indicator "takes no account of important variations in the disparate educational factors offered by various...
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Letter: Grades of error (2)
The problems the QAA is facing can easily be traced to its failure to grasp the difference between "quality assurance" and the "assurance of quality". Both are well defined internationally in ISO9000...
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Letter: Future goals
When, despite being far ahead in the premiership, Roy Keane remarked after Manchester United's defeat in the European Cup: "We are just not good enough", some commentators began to question the...