Spectres of exclusion
Satire is always very refreshing, but snobbery, class condescension and sexism dressed up as satire? (鈥淩each out and touch鈥, The Poppletonian, 19 September.)Clearly the spectre behind Laurie Taylor鈥檚...
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Steps in overseas direction
When the government originally consulted stakeholders, including universities and public authorities, on the removal of the post-study work route for international students, just 6聽per cent of...
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Mortality count
The suggestion that I 鈥渇abricated鈥 a death-roll for Dresden is untrue (review of The聽Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 by Richard Overy, Books, 19聽September). In my book The聽Destruction of Dresden (1963...
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Hey, teacher, leave those trainers alone
I agree with Anthony Seldon (鈥淩ight to reply鈥, Opinion, 19聽September): university students should receive high-quality teaching and effective student feedback should inform staff appraisals. However...
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George McKay, Roger Numas, R.鈥塁. Richardson, Peter J. Smith and Sharon Wheeler...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
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Just Queer Folks: Gender and Sexuality in Rural America, by Colin R. Johnson
Small towns were often accommodating to those without a straight sensibility, finds Sally R. Munt
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Privacy and Media Freedom, by Raymond Wacks
Arne Hintz welcomes a timely contribution to the post-Leveson debate
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The Future Is Not What it Used to Be: Climate Change and Energy Scarcity, by J枚rg Friedrichs
Jon Turney is dispirited by the rhetoric of collapse in a sober analysis of two global crises
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Acts of Desire: Women and Sex on聽Stage 1800-1930, by Sos Eltis
Hayley Jayne Bradley on how she has been depicted over the centuries
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Mozart鈥檚 Ghosts: Haunting the Halls of Musical Culture, by Mark Everist
Mark Berry on what lies behind the modern reverence for Mozart鈥檚 music
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Sir Alan Langlands: higher student loan repayments still a risk
Outgoing Hefce captain proud of guiding sector through choppy waters
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Economists dispute Scottish claims of attractiveness for foreign investors
Analysts accuse organisation of 鈥榤isrepresenting鈥 figures
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Call to improve reporting of animal research
Universities urged to adopt Arrive guidelines
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Science writing award: New hope for traumatic brain injuries
Scott Armstrong鈥檚 2013 Max Perutz Prize-winning essay on xenon鈥檚 potential to save lives
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Odds and quads
This guidance for university tutors is taken from a 1674 book, Firmianus and Dubitantius, which consists of 鈥渃ertain dialogues concerning atheism, infidelity, popery, and other heresies and schisms...