Lord Oxburgh to lead review of UEA’s climate work
Head of panel says ‘we will report as soon as possible’ because of ‘shadow hanging over science’. Zoë Corbyn reports
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How to counter the ‘anti-research mood’: take an MP to lunch
Advising social scientists how to cope with tough times ahead, Lib Dem peer says make your case over a meal
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Paul Layzell named new principal of Royal Holloway
Sussex’s deputy vice-chancellor ‘delighted’ to take up London post, reports Rebecca Attwood
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‘Corruption’ of the innocent
A report on ‘sexualisation’ is part of the latest moral panic and a prime example of the government’s use of academics to pursue its own agenda while claiming to be objective, writes Clarissa Smith
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Auditors and two top staff under scrutiny at London Met
Report calls for investigations into role of deputy vice-chancellor, finance director and internal audit firm. Melanie Newman reports
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Watchdog bites after student-loans debacle
Auditors say changeover to SLC failed to deliver value for money and pushed up processing times by a third. John Morgan reports
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UEL’s former head breathes fresh life into fallow field
Martin Everett establishes social-network analysis centre at Manchester. Melanie Newman reports
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Book of the week: Coyote at the Kitchen Door
Jules Pretty explores our changing relationship with the wild through a look at a canine trickster
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Surviving Death
Do a 'protean' nature and selflessness assure us a life after the end? Christopher Belshaw is unsure
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The New Old World
Readers who appreciate Perry Anderson's wide-ranging essays for the London Review of Books (including this reviewer) will be pleased to have this anthology of them in book form. Seven of the ten...
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The Canon: Rhyme's Reason: A Guide to English Verse. By John Hollander
Every academic is intellectually complete, a "finished man among his enemies" as Yeats put it. Still, we like a quick study on the sly: a night with Yoruba grammar, some hard action with Mandelbrot's...
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The Second Sex
A fresh interpretation has breathed new life into a seminal feminist text, discovers Mary Evans
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Excess: Anti-consumerism in the West
Do we need another study showing that happiness cannot be bought and that too much is bad for the self and for society? There are already three recent studies entitled Affluenza that highlight its...
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Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill
This sumptuously illustrated volume of essays is a successful attempt to evoke the complex plan of a unique house with the glitter of its historic contents. Each of its 16 essays breaks off for...
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Worse Than War: Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity
Piotr A. Cieplak understands the outrage but takes exception to the author's neglect of the evidence