Sultans of swing
Rallings and Thrasher, the brash young turks of election punditry, tell Simon Targett how they will beat the pollsters in predicting the result of the next general election Unless you happen to be a...
Rallings and Thrasher, the brash young turks of election punditry, tell Simon Targett how they will beat the pollsters in predicting the result of the next general election Unless you happen to be a...
From the Outside In - The Killing of Robert F. Kennedy - The American Dream - Guns or Butter - Barry Goldwater
Jean Aitchison documents the furious reaction to her Reith lectures on language. Madam, How dare you distort, desecrate and defile the English language as you did in your recent Reith lecture . . ."...
Lost Opportunity
The Bank of England 1694-1994 - The Central Bank and the Financial System - The Future of Central Banking
Economic Reform and State-Owned Enterprises in China 1979-1987 - Agricultural Reforms and Grain Production in China
Tempo and Mode in Evolution - The Fossil Trail
Where once Bertrand Russell led, the Rupert Murdoch professor of language and communication now follows. Simon Targett talks to the exponent of this year's BBC Reith lectures, Jean Aitchison True or...
In his interview with Kam Patel (THES, January 13), Steve Jones refers to his failure to obtain research support from Natural Environment Research Council, with a quoted figure of "12 to 14 research...
Why the Allies Won
The Humanities Research Board was established by the British Academy in April 1994 following the Government's decision not to set up a Humanities Research Council. This was done with the support of...
The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi
Capital Mobility - Towards a New Bretton Woods
David Walker talks to Sue Richards, a professor of management who prescribes therapy for the public sector. There can be few organisations anywhere within the public sector which have not in recent...
For Chinese art scholar Jessica Rawson, now warden of Merton College Oxford, object and text tell different tales. But in order to get the whole story we need both, as she explains to Simon Targett...