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"I can't stand (...) structural anti-Americans (...who) say that America was once good and beneficial to everyone, but nowadays is becoming a disorderly factor." Thus Emmanuel Todd. Where does one...
"I can't stand (...) structural anti-Americans (...who) say that America was once good and beneficial to everyone, but nowadays is becoming a disorderly factor." Thus Emmanuel Todd. Where does one...
Manfredi La Manna is right to query the general rationale for the concentration of research resources in a few institutions (Letters, April 16). While there may be particular disciplines where there...
"Never let the truth get in the way of a good story" could have been the headline for your article "Bradford told to review quality" (April 16). You presented the Quality Assurance Agency's...
Your article on the work of Newcastle University sociologists Liz Stanley and Helen Dumpier approaches historical revisionism of a dangerous order ("Boer war camps' atrocities 'a myth'", April 16)....
I would like to correct your report that Baroness Blackstone has yet to give Greenwich's support to the new student complaints scheme ("17 deal blow to ombudsman", April 16). Tessa Blackstone becomes...
Jules Pretty's review of Colin Tudge's So Shall We Reap: Food, Money and the Future of Humanity (Books, April 9) raises interesting issues about the book but also about perceptions of "science". He...
Richard Kirkwood's letter (April 9) in response to Paul Gross ("Why I believe Zionism isn't racist", March 26) would carry greater weight if Zionism were not constantly singled out for such...
Pleased though I was to see your "Why I" (April 16) column feature Philip John Davies in the week of the annual conference of the British Association for American Studies, I should like to point out...
A letter by Patrick Ainley on March 26 should have read "The fees hike is also a negative incentive (not disincentive) for students to take the work-based route to foundation degrees delivered in...
Your article "Lay off, says Luton, as it plays to strengths" (April 9) prompts me to recall a question. As one of more than 50 members of academic staff of Luton University who were made compulsorily...
Paul Shakeshaft is correct that formless, non-specific objectives and criteria will breed anxiety and conformity among students (Letters, April 16). But it is dangerous to imply this is endemic in...
If naming and shaming universities that admit upper-class twits and make life difficult for the plebs is part of the government's new admissions policy, I'm all in favour of it (Leader, April 9)....
Why do empires rise? Richard Drayton asks what motivates one nation to subordinate and impose its value system on others All empires are expressions of inequality hidden behind a mask of community....
A recent conference considered the idea that nations will wage war with IT rather than conventional arms but, Doron Arazi says, few were won over The war in Iraq has highlighted the potential that...
Scientists Colin Blakemore and Gill Langley square up for tonight's Controversial Thesis debate at the National Portrait Gallery. They will be confronting questions such as is there a good enough...