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Cold (war) comfort
The release of Cold War archives offers little insight into the fight against al-Qaeda, writes Peter Hennessy, but it does focus attention on the current parlous state of civil liberties in the UK (...
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Watching them watching us
With ministers deriding civil liberties to tackle an overstated terrorist threat, we need credible oversight of the security services, argues Stephen Dorril On November 24, 1974, after a series of...
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Blind faith
Why are some British academics so eager to deny the organised Islamist threat to the security of Britain, asks Anthony Glees On August 5, 2005, after the 7/7 and 21/7 bombings, Tony Blair announced...
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This is where the buck stops
Anti-globalisation activists and US academics may be united in their disdain for sovereignty, but it is still the most effective way to ensure that power is accountable, argues Christopher Bickerton...
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Distinct, not separatist
Scottish universities flourished before and after the Act of Union. And while they always focused on the nation's history, they were never nationalistic. Lindsay Paterson considers why The...
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Laurie Taylor Column
"Psychological testing for university posts is here to stay" - The Times Higher, April 20. Now, then Mr Craddock, I'd like you to sit down over here at the desk. That's right. Are you quite...
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Support, don't scorn Israel exiles
The criticism of Ilan Pappe by David Hirsh and Richard Millett (Letters, April 13) is wholly unwarranted. If, as Hirsh says, Pappe "was not successful in building an academic or a political movement...
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Anonymous insult
The letter about fourth-rate university administrators (April 20) was ignorant and insulting in equal measure and unworthy of a reply. What concerns me is that it was printed anonymously. Printing...
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Media quick fixes 1
A further problem with the lack of academics appearing as intellectuals in public view in the UK ("Academics told to push intellectual credentials", April 13) is the laziness of the television and...
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Media quick fixes 2
A. C. Grayling is expressing what many must think but do not hear often enough ("'I'm right.' 'You're not'", Features, April 20). Media reports are too often what he calls "eristic", merely an...
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Reflections on mirror
John Gribbin attributes to Victor J. Stenger the speculation that "there should be a mirror universe expanding in the opposite direction of time on the other side of the Big Bang", in his review of...
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What's really at steak
Has David Nibert never been in a field (Opinions, April 20)? The arguments he presents against eating meat relate to cheap US-style hamburgers, and I could not agree more that we should stop eating...