I first read Billion Year Spree by mistake. It was the mid-1970s, and I was working a shift at my local public library. The pay was low, but the company was good and I managed to get first pick of...
Ben McConville appreciates a thought-provoking insight into journalese and those who speak it
Where will radicalism go now that traditional party politics is smeared with corruption? I predict a riot. Well, perhaps not - maybe a nice cup of tea and a copy of The Guardian, for all us armchair...
In last week's Letters pages, Steve Smith, president of Universities UK, attacked the editor of Times Higher Education for accusing UUK of "hysteria and hyperbole" over the issue of impending cuts ("...
Andy Masheter clearly recognises the dangers that could arise if UK universities engage in the "reckless exploitation of the overseas market" (Opinion, 24 June). I strongly believe, however, that UK...
We were a little surprised to see how our U-Multirank project was described in THE ("'Serious defects' apparent in 'crude' European rankings project", News, 24 June) - all the more so since the...
Ian Taylor is correct to say that the tendency to throw around large, uncontextualised numbers as statistical evidence of China's size - and by implication, "threat" - to "us" in the West poses a...
Writing as an avowed anti-monarchist, I was dismayed to read Peter Rice-Evans' attack (Letters, 17 June) on Felipe Fernandez-Armesto's article "Duke of moral hazards" (3 June). Fernandez-Armesto...
I agree entirely that historians should make more effort to ensure their work is accessible to a wider public ("Historians told to be 'evangelical' in their duty to inform public", News, 24 June). To...
The leading British expert on Indian archaeology, whose interests embraced much of the culture and history of South Asia, has died.Raymond Allchin was born in Harrow on 9 July 1923 and educated at...
A new website has brought together the handwritten manuscripts of Jane Austen. Led by Kathryn Sutherland from the English faculty at the University of Oxford and funded by the Arts and Humanities...
In a dramatic cost-saving initiative, our Head of Procurement, Mr T.G. Messina, has announced that all Poppleton academics attending conferences less than 90 miles from campus will be required to...
Tim Birkhead fears the consequences of insensitively applied funding cuts
Japan is a collective-oriented society, as are China and India, albeit all in different ways. The US is an individualist society, as is the UK and much of the rest of Europe, although most other...
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