Old quacks and future nostrums
Phil Baty talks to Roy Porter (right), the historian of medicine whose knowledge of medieval plagues was used by a government confronting the horrors of Aids Roy Porter does not care for academia....
Phil Baty talks to Roy Porter (right), the historian of medicine whose knowledge of medieval plagues was used by a government confronting the horrors of Aids Roy Porter does not care for academia....
Besides the Chernobyls, Brent Spars and other man-made disasters of our time, German sociologist Ulrich Beck's thoughts are turning to love. David Walker reports Look at a map, preferably one in a...
Panic-stricken manoeuvres within the Conservative Party to escape blame, bribe voters or try a new leader, reveal more clearly than anything else could that Labour is riding for victory. What would a...
As the common longing for a firm moral bedrock intensifies, will Andrea Dworkin's black-and-white brand of political feminism be revived? Jennifer Wallace finds her in optimistic mood. Gascoigne...
Despite his years of exile, years of eternal opposition promises and everlasting government cuts, one thing has remained a constantin Ged Martin's academic life... The scene is the staff common room...
Supporters of comprehensives are to meet in Oxford this month to combat what they see as a right-wing propaganda campaign to discredit a successful state system. Lucy Hodges charts the history of the...
As Budget Day approaches there have been the usual leaks about fights within the Cabinet over public expenditure cuts. The two alleged victims are social security and education. This is bad news for...
The Jews of Europe are fast disappearing and the Continent will be the poorer for it, argues Bernard Wasserstein Bad news is never welcome. So I suppose I should not have been surprised at the chorus...
Tim Cornwell reports on the perils for academics of relying on Hollywood's version of history. Hollywood's take on history is back in the news with the latest work of the man called, for good or ill...
David Walker looks in vain for meaningful messages from Britain's silent sociologists. Fond as they are of the word, British sociologists do not discourse much. Indeed at the midpoint of this decade...
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Sunday. Early start; must get to grips with the 12-inch pile of research funding applications. First meeting of the newly constituted South and West NHS research and development committee tomorrow....
SUNDAY. I lie awake at night, worrying about the team of specialist assessors I am to meet. I know that one comes from a department that was assessed as "satisfactory" the week before, after claiming...
The West insists on seeing the war in Chechenia as an internal Russian affair. But as Richard Clogg points out, it is only the latest episode in an old struggle by an independent people against their...
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