Cutting edge
Greenpeace research into PVC toys that leach harmful chemicals into children's mouths has led to a European product ban. On December 9 1999 the European Commission adopted its first emergency product...
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Cash crisis in universities
Latest projections show the higher education sector on the brink of deficit, prompting universities to turn to the financial markets for cash. Revised forecasts from the Higher Education Funding...
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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 about underworld life written by a prime novelist: " 'Get away from here you dirty swine,'she...
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Evil applied in daily instalments
To the Bitter End (1942-45)
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Victorians and King Edwards on trial
Black '47 and Beyond
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Karl's shin bone and far, far more
Karl Marx
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The all-singing, all-dancing thesis
The Entertainment Economy
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Tour de force is mad and magic by turns
Proust Among the Stars
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It was the larynx, guv
The Origins of Complex Language
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Abundant signs of confusion
Encyclopedia of Semiotics
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Samoan with a few tears
How to Study Foreign Languages
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Pure speech and its day of political power
The Turkish Language Reform
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Blabber, blubber and Babel
A History of Language
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Exposed pedestrians on the information highway
The African Writers' Handbook