Rear top herds on diet of data
Databases could help raise better livestock, says John Woolliams. One of the issues that the traumas of BSE and foot-and-mouth disease have highlighted is the need for more and better information...
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Time for universal rules for a fair trial
We are near consensus on ethics for medical research worldwide, says Jimmy Whitworth. Nowhere is the need for health research more pressing than in developing countries, which suffer 90 per cent of...
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Midlands mix of Koran, Kant and Kashmir
InWhat does democracy mean to a Muslim? Mandy Garner visits the institute tackling the issues that divide Islam and the West Markfield lies in the heart of the Midlands. About half an hour's drive...
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A cocktail of bombs, drugs and inequality that just keeps on killing
As a Colombian guerrilla group with leftist academic ties returns to its bloody campaign, Domenico Pacitti probes the roots of decades of violence. The failure of peace talks between the Colombian...
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Stage dogs are all bark, no bite
Gagarin Way , the Tarantinoesque hit of the Edinburgh Festival, is a backward-looking play that is eclipsing risk-taking projects, argues Greg Giesekam. Few observers of theatre will not now know of...
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Whose land is it anyway?
Tension is mounting over land reform in South Africa. Can the government avoid a Zimbabwe scenario? Karen MacGregor reports. Pat Dunn's life has been a nightmare since she returned from political...
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Leaving the minarets to be inspired in Birmingham
During a visit to Islamic faculties in Kuala Lumpur this summer, I was struck by the number of academic staff holding PhDs from Britain. At one meeting, at the National University of Malaysia, of...
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Debate, definition and much dithering
Perspectives on Industrial Archaeology
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Finding the right tools to break a guilty silence
The German Trauma
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a novelist admired by Turgenev, Henry James and Queen Victoria: "Miss Brooke had that kind...
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Punters' joy sets a Bard example
A Triptych from the Russian Theatre
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Would a trip to the city heal outcast who snubs street cred?
Contemporary British Poetry and the City
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On bohos, Bonzos and urban pastorals
Bohemians
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The corps that cheated death
The Royal Marines
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A future where we see ourselves
A Brief History of Tomorrow