Pecking order
Peter Lennox keeps chickens, and they have taught him a great deal about behaviour, ethics, evolution and the psychopathic nature of modern 'efficiency'
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Book of the week: Not Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness
John Gilbey is reassured that not always having an answer is normal
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The Rhetoric of Terror: Reflections on 9/11 and the War on Terror
All terror is "rhetorical", for terror tries to be persuasive. It tries to convince a public to think and feel one thing rather than another. But surrounding the rhetoric of terror comes another...
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The Canon: Film as Film: Understanding and Judging Movies. By V.F. Perkins
Growing up in the 1980s, how I wished films were an intravenous fix. You can understand how satisfying it was to discover Film as Film, albeit in the years after I finished my BA.Film as Film...
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Anna Seward: A Constructed Life, A Critical Biography
Isobel Grundy welcomes a biography of an independent and long-neglected poet
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Atlantic Gateway: The Port and City of Londonderry since 1700
During the Second World War, the River Foyle, upon whose banks the city of Londonderry stands, was of vital military and strategic importance. At any one time, it was home to more than 100 Allied...
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Elizabethan Architecture: Its Rise and Fall, 1540-1640
Mark Girouard's Elizabethan Architecture is concerned with "the intensely artificial, elaborately composed houses of great people, as artificial as the clothes that encased their inhabitants". It is...
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Published this week
BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT- The Elephant In the Boardroom: The Causes of Leadership DerailmentBy Adrian Furnham, professor of psychology, University College London. Palgrave Macmillan, £25.00. ISBN...
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We have the brains to diversify funding
I welcome David Greenaway's more realistic appraisal of the way forward for university financing ("We did it before ...", 28 January). The higher education sector has done well over the past decade...
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Search for a positive signal
The UK needs to produce more physicists, according to Sir Brian Follett, chair of the STEM Advisory Forum. Yet this is being undermined by severe funding cuts to fundamental physics and astronomy...
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Antidote for toxic cuts 1
If UK universities now operate in a global market for staff and students, then a concern with excellence would seem to make it sensible to revisit the issue of tenure, which was abolished in 1988.It...
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Antidote for toxic cuts 2
Your report on the proposed redundancies in history at the University of Sussex omits one significant wrinkle ("Despite colleagues' support, cuts cause deep traumas", 21 January). The cuts have been...
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Doth protest too much
Much as one regrets Lancaster University's loss ("Researchers fear that early end to collection loan will hit REF standing", 28 January), Robert Appelbaum is too pessimistic when he suggests that...
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Sign of desperation
The notion of "recycled news" reached previously unheard-of temporal dimensions with your disappointingly sensationalist report on a therapist's unconventional work nearly three decades ago ("Stark...
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Killing 'jokes'
It is hardly surprising that the University of Nottingham's complaints procedures have absolved one professor of offending a gay colleague in an email containing a flaccid joke about "faggots" ("...