A good eye for the pity of the 7th hell
Wilfred Owen
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Enticing fruits of many minds
The Oxford English Literary History
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Was red Ken's idea truly capital?
Urban Road Pricing
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Hunger and illness in a fertile field
So Shall We Reap
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Provoke the beast and create a very nasty atmosphere
The Discovery of Global Warming
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a story of three generations: "At the age of fifteen my grandmother became the concubine of a warlord...
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Spars & Gripes: Ear for the death rattle of an empire
Emmanuel Todd has endured severe flak for his views on the US. Laurie Taylor invited the author of bestseller After the Empire to defend his stance in the first of a series of controversial opinions...
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Banking on more reliable evidence
Despite the conviction of a Libyan intelligence agent for the Lockerbie bombing, Robert Black QC, who helped bring the case to trial, has doubts about the outcome, as he tells Adam James Academics do...
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Will game end on foul play?
Stephen Phillips reports on how scandal has damaged the status of US college sports Murray Sperber thought it prudent to go check out the house he'd inherited in Montreal and to make himself scarce...
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'It's no whitewash but it shows why we work here'
Do TV portrayals of university life do more harm than good? Anna Fazackerley reports on what happened when Bristol let the cameras in With political debates on top-up fees and access to higher...
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Hit all the right buttons or just flash the cash
One-off bursaries and highly focused marketing are two ways in which courses are attracting students in the battle to stay viable. Harriet Swain reports Top-up fee-fuelled debates about the...
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Laurie Taylor column
UNIVERSITY OF POPPLETON Dear Georgina Middleton, It gives me great pleasure to invite you to receive your degree certificate at the graduation ceremony to be held in the university's Monsanto Hall at...
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'Superstar' rating is not the issue
The Association of University Teachers, like many organisations and academics, is unable to distinguish the wood from the trees as far as the research assessment exercise is concerned ("Union puts...
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No disservice
Anthony Glees ("Scholars thwart spies", April 9) is right to "accuse" academics of scepticism about the claims of western security services that they are the defenders of democracy. If they are doing...