Cultivating Conscience is a blistering attack on the "law and economics" school, which has had an enormous impact in the US legal academy. For Lynn Stout, professor of corporate and securities law at...
Fred Inglis wishes for a more searching critique of what passes for contentment in the modern era
Gilbert and Sullivan's Major-General may have known many, but the only cheerful fact about the square on the hypotenuse that is familiar to most of us is that it is equal to the sum of the squares on...
The recent criminal convictions arising from the July 2000 Concorde crash near Paris renewed the concerns of aviation professionals and provide a timely backdrop for the work of Sofia Michaelides-...
A poignant and peerless stage production in a dazzling setting moves Dominic Shellard to tears
All the world might be a stage, but Peter J. Smith finds little wit in Stephen Unwin's latest production
Italian Etchings: The Draughtsman's Print and other exhibitionsFitzwilliam Museum, CambridgeEtching developed as a printing technique in the 16th century, and this exhibition (which runs until 29...
Kingston upon ThamesElif Shafak in conversation with Richard CohenElif Shafak is the most widely read woman writer in Turkey. Her novels in both Turkish and English have proved best-sellers and been...
In a surprise move, our university has decided that it will no longer accept research funding from Attila the Hun.Speaking to The Poppletonian, our Director of Research Finance, L.G. Virement,...
A theoretical materials physicist, an entrepreneur, a journal editor and a keen horn player: Marshall Stoneham was a man of many talents.Professor Stoneham was born on 18 May 1940 in Barrow-in-...
Did Satan, the arch-villain, possess a 13-year-old boy, asks Gary Day, on the tale inspiring The Exorcist
So ministers and their advisers misunderstood the law relating to the Office for Fair Access' powers to require universities to charge specific tuition-fee levels? ("You mean Offa is toothless? The...
We are dismayed by the proposal of the University of Glasgow to eliminate German, Czech, Russian, Italian and Polish from its curriculum ("Polyglots plot as Glasgow letter screams foul over axe", 17...
I was appalled to learn of the proposed cuts to languages and the department of adult and continuing education at the University of Glasgow.In an increasingly interlinked world, knowledge of other...
I am shocked to hear that the University of Glasgow is considering making broad cuts in language instruction, particularly the Slavic languages. One of the reasons for Glasgow's global repute is the...