Returning after a notable absence
Mandy Garner talks to a man eager to revive Afghan music. John Baily has been working on Afghan music for 30 years but his last visit to Afghanistan was 25 years ago when he and his wife, Veronica...
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Cutting edge: Heart steers head onto right track
When push comes to shove, the emotional area of our brain often overrules the rational in moral dilemmas. Geoff Watts reports. When moral philosophers explain how they might act if faced with a...
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These agents aren't rational
Machine Dreams
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Statistical dribble that never hits goal
The Economics of Football
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Precision forecasts without precision
Innovations in Pension Fund Management
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Nowadays, it's good to gamble
The National Lottery and its Regulation
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The taxing task of tinkering
Just Taxes
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Prudence and precedents that fostered sense of duty
Adam Smith and the Classics
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a failed academic turned biographer: "The history of the Victorian Age will never be written...
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Painful life of an angry outcast
Mark Gertler
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Hard questions for hard target 1
In "The Great Fee Debate" ("How deep must students dig?" THES , January 10), Tony Blair's exclusion of employers/business as sources of additional funding for higher education is telling. Employers...
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Hard questions for hard target 2
The 50 per cent target for participation in higher education is ambitious (Analysis, THES , January 3). If achieved, the government will see it as successful only if a large proportion of those...
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Hard questions for hard target 3
Can someone with a better statistical brain than mine explain the government's target for higher education participation? Margaret Hodge has said that "at present more than 43 per cent of young...