Time for Mr Straw to rock the jailhouse boat
The home secretary should consider a more imaginative approach to the use of imprisonment, argues Sean McConville. No news was the best news for penal policy in the Queen's Speech. Five flawed...
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Puzzle to set brains whirring
HOW could we manage without the future? What would happen to the thriving community of prognosticators and scenario spinners? Policy gurus and politicians thrive on the future, journalists are at...
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The Rupert and Tony show
The Mass Media and Power in Modern Britain - New Media, New Policies
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Are you a key FOB?
An awful lot of people are banking on a Labour government beating a path to their door for advice. An awful lot of them are going to be disappointed. Brian Brivati predicts who will be called and who...
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Deltas, discord and the dammed
Delta - Rivers of Discord - Water, Rivers and Creeks - Cleaning up the Great Lakes
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South Africa's chaotic cultural revolution
The ANC's attempts to make South Africa's universities cater for the black majority population has plunged them into crisis, argues R. W. Johnson South Africa's universities are struggling against...
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The outside world fails to get a look in
British universities are not meeting the challenge of a fast-changing world - an issue which Dearing failed adequately to address, says Fred Halliday IT IS NOT easy, in the debate on British...
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One country, two systems, six views
At midnight on June 30, 155 years of British rule in Hong Kong cease. The handover to China raises complex questions for the colony's institutions, economy and citizens, with Hong Kong's thriving...
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Don't blame it on the gene
The obsession with genetic explanations is a cheap and convenient way of dealing with complex human behaviour. Sociologist of science Dorothy Nelkin tells Gail Vines why she has chosen this issue for...
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Russia's spurned reformer
Archie Brown contrasts Oxford's warm welcome for Gorbachev with the cold shoulder he gets from his countrymen. Mikhail Gorbachev is back in the news again - at least in the West. These days he is...
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A special class of character building
Schools and universities in the United States are trying to teach something that as yet has no place on Britain's curricula. It is called character education, and what they mean is the cultivation of...
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Clinton's vice
The election of a Democrat president with a Republican Congress is good news for American scientists but does not mean the funding squeeze will ease up, argues Albert Teich. Bill Clinton's victory...
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A sceptred isle in full spectrum
The Oxford Illustrated History of Tudor and Stuart Britain - The Later Tudors - Tudor Frontiers and Noble Power
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Labour is all ears
One of the tests of a mature political party is the ability to hold an open and sensible debate on important issues." There was an element of self-justification in Baroness Blackstone's comment at...
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Lancing the Euro-septic boil
Last week the Cambridge Union debated the motion 'Herr Kohl succeeded where Hitler failed'. Edward Pearce went to do battle for Britain, Kohl and common sense It was a serious matter to be asked to...