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100 years on: the flag is still flying, but is it red?
As the Labour Party quietly celebrates its centenary, Gordon Marsden finds continuities between Labour old and new. Anniversaries are tricky affairs. Certainly they give an opportunity to highlight...
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Albert, the reluctant exhibit
The Albert Memorial
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Capitalism's melting plots
Form Follows Finance - The Creative Destruction of Manhattan, 1900-1940
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Deliverance in the tombs
Delhi: the Built Heritage
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Before the war, coke was merely a tonic
Emperors of Dreams
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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 hard-boiled novel (and film) about Los Angeles: " It was one of the mixed blocks over on Central...
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Forced labour? Birth is more a hostile takeover
A Visitor Within
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A corpus excised of quackery
Medicine in the 20th Century
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Laurie Taylor column
Welcome to the first of this term’s staff-graduate seminars. Regrettably, our advertised speaker, Doctor G. R. Clinker, is unable to deliver his paper on global communications because of maintenance...
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Leader: Tories' bold ideas still need to show some substance
The Conservative Party's new higher education policy is a bold and decisive one, and its decision to make it a visible plank of its election platform is welcome. Alongside David Blunkett's Greenwich...
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Letter: Caution with cures
As Gary Comstock, the eminent bioethicist and philosopher, so perceptively notes ("Make plans on the hoof", Research, THES, December 22), the precautionary principle can lead to diametrically...
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Letter: Loo behaviour
Miles Russell writes that the increasing privatisation of bodily functions "can be linked to higher degrees of civilisation" ("Studying the passed", Research, THES, January 12). How "civilised" is it...
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Letter: Slave to accuracy
Contrary to the impression conveyed in the interview with Kevin Bales ("Slavery on our doorstep", THES, January 19), the existence of and increase in modern-day slavery together with the reasons for...
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Letter: MBA powerbrokers
Philip Augar argues that if business schools developed specialised MBAs for the financial services sector that taught softer as well as technical skills the economy would benefit ("Cash in on MBA...