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Wholehearted Tory but too clever by half
Iain Macleod
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a recently returned member of the Labour diaspora: "To substitute the politics of mutual education for the politics of command and exchange would be to gamble - not...
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Speaking Volumes: The English Constitution
Peter Hennessy on Walter Bagehot's The English Constitution . For 29 years I have been in thrall to a man and a book - Walter Bagehot and his The English Constitution. I read it one autumn evening in...
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF EXETER Readerships: Stuart Biddle, senior lecturer reader in exercise and sport psychology; Anne Brown, senior lecturer, reader in fish physiology; Christine Eiser, senior lecturer,...
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Honorary degrees
ROEHAMPTON INSTITUTE. DUniv: Pauline Perry, president of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge; Jan Beaney, teacher and artist in the field of stitched textiles. Noticeboard is compiled by Lynne Williams...
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Events
ARIADNE'S THREAD. "Ariadne's Thread" is a solo exhibition of sculpture and prints by Helen Kenny which draws on the myth of Theseus and the Minotaur. Ms Kenny studied at La Cambre in Brussels and...
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Appointments
UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD. Gillian Lynne, choreographer and former soloist with the Royal Ballet, has been appointed professional patron at the Centre for Media, Performance and Communications. THE...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS. Sam Falle, reader, personal chair in astrophysical fluid dynamics; Kevin Keasey, professor of finance and accounting, Leeds Permanent Building Society chair in financial services...
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Britannia in fur coat and no knickers
THE LOST VICTORY: BRITISH DREAMS, BRITISH REALITIES 1945-1950 by Correlli Barnett. Macmillan, 514pp, Pounds 20.00 - ISBN 0 333 48045 7. THE SCHUMAN PLAN AND THE BRITISH ABDICATION OF LEADERSHIP IN...
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Portsmouth court
Portsmouth University, whose governors have been criticised by an independent inquiry, is planning to set up a higher court of appeal under the chancellor for board members and possibly other staff....
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Medical lottery gamble
Eight medical research charities risk alienating their potential sugar daddy, the National Lottery Charities Board, by asking for money in its first round, the winners of which will be announced on...
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Cancer cures shift out of lab
Cancer deaths could be cut by a third within 25 years, the Imperial Cancer Research Fund predicted yesterday. The charity, announcing its prognosis for cancer into the next century, said that the...
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V-cs stick to admissions policy
Vice chancellors were expected to endorse the current pre-qualification universities admissions system at their annual residential conference in Belfast this week. A working session of the Committee...
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Whitehall's superconductor
Robert May tells Martyn Kelly how he helped bring order to scientific chaos The Government's new Chief Scientific Adviser is, if the headline writers are to be believed, about to bring chaos to the...