Heat on cities to change
The world's cities can do the most to worsen or mitigate environmental damage and climate change. Julian Hunt and Lorna Walker focus on London It is becoming increasingly apparent that the often...
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So what if the summit is all talk, no action
As politicians head for Johannesburg, Chris Bunting starts our four-page special on sustainability by looking at how the summit will bring together more scientific experts and policy-makers than ever...
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Free market will enslave us all
Humans do not develop by buying mobile phones and BMWs, argues Thai environmentalist Sulak Sivaraksa, who believes a sustainable future requires a little bit of spiritual enlightenment. Chris Bunting...
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'A strikingly good bargain'
Preserving the biodiversity of our planet will require some short-term sacrifices but in the long term it will benefit everyone, both economically and environmentally. Jaap de Roode reports In the...
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Moving to the Yorkshire muse's beat
Simon Armitage talks about prisoners, prose, poetry conferences and car problems with Gary Day Once famous for its cricket, Yorkshire is now renowned for its poets: Ted Hughes, Tony Harrison and,...
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Still want sun, sand and sex on the beach?
In the last of our series on tourism, Chris Ryan considers how academic studies of sex tourism can help sex workers gain human rights and promote responsible travelling Sex tourism as a topic of...
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Bums on seats aren't everything 3
As ever post-clearing, we are privy to the annual whinge about the decline and fall of British education standards. But out there where real students live, there are hopeful voices, rejoicing hearts...
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Visitor has overstayed
The visitor processes are as varied as the post-holders (Letters, THES , August 16). A complainant might be lucky and get a "good bishop" or the Privy Council Office. They might get an oral hearing...
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Points of law
With reference to Frank Furedi's article "Would you fail the Trades Description Act?" ( THES , August 16), first, it is the Trade Descriptions Act 1968. Second, there may be more than a "little doubt...
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Cambridge questions 1
Much is made in Cambridge about the university as a community of scholars, rather than as an organisation of employers and employed. Some believe this implies that scholars own the intellectual...
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Cambridge questions 2
You report Hubert Picarda QC as saying that "universities should fall into exempt charity status because they are subject to self-regulation" ("Concern at proposed charity law reforms", THES , August...
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Cambridge questions 3
I read with interest your article "Academe's UK stars of future shun Cambridge" ( THES , August 16). I applied as a research student to Cambridge's maths faculty as an external graduate only to be...
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Historical prejudice 1
Jeremy Black presents a tale of fear and loathing among historians in respect of the late Sir Jack Plumb ("A Plumb with an acerbic aftertaste", THES , August 16). Obituaries should not be...
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Historical prejudice 2
Whether the rule that one should speak no ill of the dead still holds or not, it was certainly breached by Sir Jack Plumb and his cronies in the hatchet jobs they did on the reputation of the late...
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Occupational barriers
That "Student, 46, wins place for medicine" is front-page news ( THES , August 16) reflects as much on the assumptions of professions about the source of their would-be practitioners as on ageism in...