A voyager on well versed seas
Was Keats a political poet? Biographer Andrew Motion, who recently retraced Keats's 1820 voyage to Naples, certainly thinks so \ If you think poets and writers keep irregular hours and lead feckless...
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Chain gangs
Lock up your gold chains. US-style mayors may be about to hit our cities Tony Blair has hit the headlines by arguing for powerful, directly elected mayors, along the American model, to become part of...
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Honorary degrees
Robert Gordon University DBA: Anthony Bamford, chairman and managing director of JCB. DLitt: Peter Graham, general officer commanding the army in Scotland and governor of Edinburgh Castle (1991-93)....
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Christine Savva, who is studying for an MA in employment studies and human resource management, is writing a dissertation called "Bullying at work - an investigation and analysis of bullying in...
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It wasn't him...
Do you rely on a dead priest to choose your lottery numbers? Ian Walker assesses the statistics thrown by the nation's biggest draw The National Lottery has attracted billions of pounds for good...
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The plot thickens
History is fiction, argues Alun Munslow, but that does not mean it cannot tell truths What do historians do? When I was an undergraduate in the 1960s I read good-practice primers, among them E. H....
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Letter
Your editorial "Dolly is just cloning around" (THES, February 28) states "the public has a right to expect its elected governments to consider when, why and how technologies should be controlled, and...
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The euro trasher
Would-be leader of the Conservative party and chief Euro sceptic John Redwood savages the singlecurrency enthusiasts' case and tells Martin Ince why proper debate is needed When politicians call for...
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Let there be Darwin
Popular cosmologists and evolutionists are fond of poking fun at the Bible as unscientific. Russell Stannard, however, finds its insights rather less facile than their theological pretensions...
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Abortion advice ban is lifted
The Irish Supreme Court has lifted a five-year ban restraining student unions from distributing abortion information. The lifting of the ban has been welcomed by union leaders who said that it...
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Research papers
Research papers relating to the stories on this page (where indicated) can be found through THESIS, The THES Internet serviceis available at: http://thesis.newsint.co.uk newsint.co.uk
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Macao is ticked off
Beijing has rebuked Macao for planning a new college affiliated to a Portuguese university. Macao, which since 1976 has been legally a "special territory" of China under Portuguese administration, is...
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Black injustice
YOUNG black offenders have suffered tougher treatment from police and judges than their white equivalents, according to research. A five-year study found they were both more likely to be acquitted in...
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Pusher bounty pays for drug research
DRUG dealers are to fund research at Teesside University, albeit indirectly and involuntarily. Money from the Cleveland police fund based on seized dealers' assets has been used to endow a prize for...
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Fact file
The 糖心Vlog Statistics Agency's findings for 1995/6 reveal that: 11.4 per cent of the student population came from overseas to study in the United Kingdom compared with 10.4 per cent in 1994...