Pagan but not godless
I was appalled by the closing paragraph of Shabbir Akhtar's review (THES, August 21), in which he identifies secularism with paganism and denounces the latter as ruthless, power-seeking and "godless...
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Insult to Serbs
Vera Rich (THES, August 21) "informs" us that "Kosovo was cut off from Albania in the Communist era ..." This is grossly incorrect and insulting both to Serbs today and their forefathers who fought...
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On record
Christopher Phipps refers to the British Library and other major libraries collaborating to ensure a continued national public archive (THES, August 21). Anyone from the London Library should be...
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A levels as entry route
It is disappointing to see yet another example of questionable graphical display used to substantiate a point based on dubious interpretation of data. Phil Baty ("Colleges overtake schools", THES,...
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Better pensions cost money
Alastair McDougall (THES, August 21) has some interesting ideas. The Association of University Teachers and the corporate trustee both agree with him in attaching importance to improvement of the...
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Better pensions cost money
Alastair McDougall could be accused of proposing the wrong solution to the wrong problem at the wrong time. If there is genuine concern about the stress levels of university staff these should be...
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Hong Kong cash myth
Orlan Lee, writing about higher education in Hong Kong in your review of the Commonwealth, regrettably perpetuates a myth about the research assessment exercises undertaken by the University Grants...
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Half-baked ideas on cannibalism
Cannibals
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Speaking Volumes
Jaroslav Hasek's Good Soldier Svejk A sorry-looking Penguin on the shelf reminds me that I first read The Good Soldier Svejk and his Fortunes in the World War (1921-23), Jaroslav Hasek's picaresque...
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Ties that bind and tear
The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture - The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture - The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture
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The great and the not so good
The Oxford History of the British Empire - The Oxford History of the British Empire
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Taking it to the limits
Impossibility
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is by a pseudonymous author whose burlesque on British chivalry is also a satire on modern technology and...
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Asia's deadly enigma
Question: which country suffers famine, launches missiles over its neighbours and prints counterfeit dollar bills? Answer: the secret Stalinist state of North Korea. Aidan Foster-Carter reports...
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Stylish theory kinda guy
Worldly Wise: 13. Economist Paul Krugman is pugnacious, contrary - and often right. He forecast East Asia's crisis and he has a controversial prescription. Huw Richards reports Economist Paul Krugman...