How Not to Be Eaten: The Insects Fight Back
Michelle Harvey gets caught up in the evolutionary arms race of six-legged predators and prey
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Privatising the Public University: The Case of Law
The demise of state funding has altered students' attitudes to the legal profession, says Huw Morris
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Reinventing Political Culture: The Power of Culture versus the Culture of Power
Political culture is a bit of an elephant in the living room for social scientists. It's large and we know it's there, but we're not sure how to deal with it. As a result, it is often ignored at the...
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The Justice Cascade: How Human Rights Prosecutions are Changing World Politics
At the London School of Economics a few years ago I listened as Richard Goldstone, then the great guru of the international criminal court, outlined his case for what the author of this stimulating...
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The Anticipatory Corpse: Medicine, Power and the Care of the Dying
I approached this book with caution. It begins with the story of Nancy, a woman diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, a disease I have witnessed at close quarters and had no wish to reacquaint myself...
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Why Religion is Natural and Science is Not
Don't be misled by the title. This is not a book written in praise of religion as natural or criticising science as unnatural - quite the contrary. The author, Robert McCauley, is a cognitive science...
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Dissatisfied?
Stefan Collini is, and he thinks you should be, too. He explains to Matthew Reisz why universities must not pander to students, business or the government and instead defend their own distinctive...
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The roots still show through
The spray-tanned, dyed cliches of Essex fascinate and appal. In his latest play, David Eldridge reminds us of another side of the county, writes Mark O'Thomas
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Diary
ManchesterThe Devil's WallIdris Khan's new installation, to be seen in the UK for the first time at the Whitworth Art Gallery (until 13 May), draws inspiration from the pilgrimage to Mecca. At its...
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The Pick - Other Stories: Queering the University Art Collection
Other Stories: Queering the University Art CollectionStanley & Audrey Burton GalleryUniversity of Leeds February to 5 MayBernard Meninsky's Mother and Child, painted in 1919, is a touching image...
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Me, myself and I
One of our leading scholars, Professor F.R. Beavis, of the Department of English and Related Studies for Impact, has announced that in future he will acknowledge the co-authorship of research that he...
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Offa's 'nuclear option' is an illusory concept (1 of 2)
Among the coverage of the appointment of a new Office for Fair Access director ("Cable to make selection panel an Offa it can't refuse", 16 February), it is said that Les Ebdon has threatened to use...
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Offa's 'nuclear option' is an illusory concept (2 of 2)
The vilification of Les Ebdon in some sections of the press, in opposition to his appointment as director of Offa, is ill-informed, completely unjustified and highly damaging to the causes of...
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You get what you pay for
John Gill, in his leader ("Something has got to give", 16 February), raises the point that English students who will be paying tuition fees of ?9,000 a year from September will expect the teaching...
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Wholly effective
The letters by Robin Parker and by Sally Hunt ("Fear of failure?", 16 February) on the Review of 糖心Vlog Governance in Scotland, chaired by Ferdinand von Prondzynski, point to the need for a...