'Our fate was in our own hands'
When an expensive international experiment faced collapse, Don Braben and his collaborators, unfettered by micromanagement, pooled their intelligence and ingenuity to ensure success
When an expensive international experiment faced collapse, Don Braben and his collaborators, unfettered by micromanagement, pooled their intelligence and ingenuity to ensure success

Alex Danchev is bowled over by an impassioned discussion of reason and humanity

Anthony Giddens feels the authors have looked at carbon trading through rose-tinted glasses

Some things live to be ephemeral: morning glories, cabbage white butterflies and newspaper columns. So it was with apprehension that I faced this collection of op-ed columns from The Jewish Chronicle...
In stark stylistic contrast to almost any work of philosophy you care to name, Thus Spoke Zarathustra dances from the pages with a florid exuberance that can border on the embarrassing. Its scope, as...
John Gray says he is no despairing grump, just trying to help us by injecting realism into political thinking. To that end, he tells Matthew Reisz, his essays do not skirt the nasty, shabby sides of...
ART AND DESIGN- Monument Wars: Washington, DC, the National Mall, and the Transformation of the Memorial LandscapeBy Kirk Savage, associate professor and chair of the department of art and...
Having seen the recent correspondence regarding the administration costs attributed to academic independence, I felt compelled to respond ("Running battles on the governance front line", Letters, 17...
The least we're entitled to expect from an exercise that claims to assess research excellence is that it embodies research principles ("It's evolution, not revolution for REF", 24 September). When it...
You characterise Thomson Reuters' success rate for predicting Nobel prizewinners "at about 15 per cent, with seven of its 45 predictions made between 2002 and 2008 proving to be accurate" ("Brits...
Your article on the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) ("Saudi Arabia begins putting minds to challenges of future", 24 September) states that the University of Cambridge and...
Alex Prichard celebrates the return of anarchism as an academic subject ("More than mayhem", 24 September), but one might ask if it ever went away. As the convenor of the socialist history seminar at...
When I was a postgraduate at the University of Birmingham a few years ago, my office overlooked the Muirhead Tower (Original Features, 24 September). It was generally regarded as the ugliest building...
Having recently been awarded a doctorate, I would like to thank George Steiner, the literary critic, for inspiring me on my quest to resubmit my thesis.I was devastated when I was asked to resubmit...
An open letter to Lord Drayson from Charles DarwinMinister, it is a most distressing eventuality to find one's life's work "distorted" in the popular media. Last night, I attended a cinematograph...