Odds and quads
These flyers form part of an extensive archive of manifestos and other publicity material from every general election since 1892.Four boxes are devoted to the 2005 general election alone. The...

These flyers form part of an extensive archive of manifestos and other publicity material from every general election since 1892.Four boxes are devoted to the 2005 general election alone. The...
Academic claims Christian principles are key to preventing financial crisis. Hannah Fearn reports
An academic is battling to obtain access to Treasury documents relating to past banking failures, five years after he first asked to see the material under the Freedom of Information Act.Prem Sikka,...

Brian Duffy photographed many faces of the 1960s. Gary Day watches him pick up the camera again

One of our senior redundancy-package-available academics, Professor Gordon Lapping of the Department of Media and Cultural Studies, has strongly backed the recent plea from the London Mathematical...
With election day looming, the science policies of Labour, the Tories and the Lib Dems were scrutinised by the Campaign for Science and Engineering. Zoë Corbyn weighs up their responses and manifesto...
A weekly look over the shoulders of our scholar-reviewers
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated? David J. Gunkel mourns the betrayal of his Cold War boyhood's dreams of jetpacks, lunar adventure and the futuristic allure of the metric system
The heritage industry puts flesh on the past to flog it. History sits less easily on the impact agenda but is vital nonetheless
As I approach a new job in a Japanese university, I'm constantly receiving material from the institution in Japanese, including announcements of induction sessions conducted in Japanese. "Well, what...

One of the world's leading experts on addiction has died.
David Colquhoun has succeeded through scare tactics in getting the University of Buckingham Medical School to withdraw from the diploma in the study of integrated medicine (IM) (“It’s terminal for...

Salford bans debates after selective invitations, writes Melanie Newman
Kevin Fong takes a road trip across Europe after volcanic ash grounds his plans
Michael Wood's proposal for "The journal of everything" (22 April) suffers from the usual problem of all such proposals: the lack of a credible business plan. He points out the advantages for authors...