A great but flawed president
ARGUABLY the most important thing to happen in Washington DC this summer had little to do with Republicans and Democrats and their efforts to reveal each other's campaign finance shenanigans. What...
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The f-word that will change everything
WHEN student loans were introduced I remember quoting a reassuring statement from the then Department of Education and Science that the value of the loan would not reach 50 per cent of the...
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Economist backs Scots tax
A "TARTAN tax" under a Scottish parliament could mean higher profits for Scottish businesses, and attract inward investment, according to a leading academic economist. The run-up to the Scottish...
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Sussex close to Nasa deal
ELECTRICAL engineers at Sussex University were this week expected to sign a deal with Nasa to design a linear electric motor to help launch spacecraft. The technology could soon help Nasa save...
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Scientific peer review 'in crisis'
UNIVERSITIES are facing a crisis of peer review according to Southampton vice chancellor Howard Newby, who this week publicly criticised the top-down style of scientific management emerging in higher...
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Sink spouts and ballot boxes
A Century of Women
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Significance from the margins
The Conditions of Listening
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The village anthropologist
An Indian Village through Letters and Pictures
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India's articulate art
The Two-Headed Deer
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Of love, torture, sympathy and very
Towards Justice and Virtue
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The rock of sages
The Proper Study of Mankind
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Speaking Volumes: W.C. Sellar's and R.J. Yeatman's 1066 and All That
Speaking Volumes on W.C. Sellar's and R.J. Yeatman's 1066 and All That. My father, a man of genial but sceptical disposition, refrained from introducing me to this remarkable book until I had decided...
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Parisian style not in vogue
Napoleon and his Artists
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The six of them
Yeats
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He started and he usually finished
The Cambridge Companion to Schubert - Schubert - Schubert and His World