Opinion: Any education, so long as it’s training
Labour’s student-as-customer framework reduces the academy to a glorified apprenticeship system and leaves Donald Braben praying for a predictable future
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The failure of History
"People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make." G.K. Chesterton
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Taking Flight
John Turner finds that piloting an aeroplane is the perfect tonic after a hectic week
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Book of the week: The Question of Morale
How can the academy get over its gloom? Just grow up, Gail Kinman hears
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1989: The Struggle to Create Post-Cold War Europe
Gareth Dale learns how the old world order slipped on the cloak of the new after the wall came down
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Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism
Within a week of the Twin Towers falling I saw, at a sparsely attended cinema, the beautiful future-set AI: Artificial Intelligence. Late in the film, its frail robotic heroes approach a flooded and...
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The Canon. Henry VIII by J. J. Scarisbrick
"Return to your garret in Oxford. Sadly I do not think that I can be of great help to you, but I am sure that you are on the right lines." It was with these words that Professor J.J. Scarisbrick said...
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The Cult of St George in Medieval England
Robert Bartlett is intrigued by how England came to embrace a fictional character as its patron saint
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Red Planets: Marxism and Science Fiction
Ask a dozen people at random to describe what science fiction is and you will probably get a dozen different answers. Start a discussion with those 12 people about what, if anything, science fiction...
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Out of the Blue: September 11 and the Novel
Trauma theorists have made much of a simple human reaction: when we are traumatised, we do not know what to say; words literally fail us - a debilitating problem if you happen to be a novelist.As...
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Modernism on Sea
The influence of seaside towns on our culture goes far beyond the kiss-me-quick hat, says Peter Borsay
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Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer
Cosmetic Surgery: A Feminist Primer is worth its cover price for the collection of essays in Part One alone, a grouping of four papers under the heading "Revisiting Feminist Critique". The rest of...
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The Unheard Truth: Poverty and Human Rights
The theme of this book is understanding and tackling worldwide poverty, conceived as the denial of human rights, and more especially the rights to access the resources, services and political...
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Demystifying Syria
Never judge a book by its cover. In this case, the cover shows us a veiled woman on a Syrian street, ignoring a painting of a youthful Hafiz al-Asad, who looks here almost like Omar Sharif. The...
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Pocket Pantheon: Figures of Postwar Philosophy
A gathering of great thinkers convinces David Revill that our modern minds need expanding