Did Churchill kill Il Duce?
An Italian historian claims that Churchill had a wartime correspondence with Mussolini and urged his death to cover it up. Paul Bompard sifts the evidence. Italian dictator Benito Mussolini was shot...
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Old scripts, new insights
Are hieroglyphs making a comeback? Andrew Robinson examines ancient and modern writing. Writing is among the greatest inventions of human history. Yet it is a skill most writers take for granted. We...
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Fragile figure in eye of storm
Retired Harvard professor Annemarie Schimmel tells Jennie Brookman why she defended Islamic fury against Salman Rushdie. Annemarie Schimmel seems an unlikely person to have caused the biggest...
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Vive la difference
John Gray argues for new ways of political thinking that address the deep cultural diversity of the age and replace the bankrupt ideologies, both Left and Right, of the past. The public cultures of...
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Admission of an A-level problem
It has been a long hard summer in the recruitment office. The hostile media reports made a complex task even more complicated and so much ill-informed comment has been damaging. How much so will...
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Gender deficit and tradition
Discovering why girls outperform boys at school but fail to do as well at university requires five years' detailed study, argues Gillian Sutherland. People seem surprised that degree results show the...
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Case for pay body
The article "Pay structure delayed" (THES, October 6) clearly indicates the wide diversity of views in the universities and colleges regarding the necessary restructuring of negotiating bodies in...
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Rocked foundation
Your report "Building Collapse" (THES, September 22) which relates to the closure of the BSc (Hons) construction economics degree at Southampton Institute is inaccurate. There were 36 students...
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Don's Diary
TUESDAY. Watching the sun set from 25,000 feet over Moscow on my way to Irkutsk, central southern Siberia, I find myself trying, somewhat unsuccessfully, to put to the back of my mind a recent...
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The neglected revolution
I write on behalf of the forgotten majority - the universities and colleges who train more than 99 per cent of the nation's teachers, now "in partnership" with schools. Much recent attention has...
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Marry in haste I
Ian Johnston on the pros and cons of the NCVQ-SCAA merger. At the time of the autumn public expenditure survey it was hardly surprising that the recently leaked draft Department for Education and...
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Offensive race questions
I recently applied for an academic post at one of the United Kingdom's new universities (ie a former polytechnic) and I was sent an application form to complete. One of the sections asked for details...
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Odd friends
I was surprised to see that Birkbeck College is advertising for a "Nestle Lectureship in the Politics of Development" (THES, October 6). Presumably this will involve extensive research into the...
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An appeal to learned friends
Following the recent Consumer Association survey suggesting that large numbers of practising solicitors are offering poor advice, one would have thought Martin Mears and the Law Society (THES,...
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Brutalising experiments
In his article, "The age of reasoning" (THES, September 29), Kenneth Boyd envisages a scenario whereby an individual is temporarily removed from this world and must decide whether the use of animals...