Dead Clever
Chapter 3. Henry spent an uncomfortable night trying to fight off the feeling of being hoist on his own petard. He kept reminding himself that despite this setback, the plan itself had worked like a...
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Labour eyes miss action
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...
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Curing the soul's ills
The Therapy of Desire
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Dead Clever
CHAPTER 1. Henry sat on the low wall surrounding the car park of the engineering faculty, staring at a row of quaint Victorian terraced houses with bay windows. He drummed his fingers on the attache...
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Risk in the rules
A NASA work culture that 'normalised' the danger signs led tothe Challenger disaster, sociologist Diane Vaughan tells John Davies. Diane Vaughan is no rocket scientist; she is a sociologist. But when...
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Sino the times
As China becomes a richer society it is ironically turning its back on a wealth of discovery about its past. Jessica Rawson reports The past 25 years has been an era of major Chinese archaeological...
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More than a tragic storm in a teacup
At the end of May, an intelligent Harvard student stabbed her room-mate 45 times before killing herself. She made international news. It was a perfect tragedy of high energies and ambitions...
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Cinema verite?
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...
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Net loss is a big gain
Joe Sinyor welcomes the end of the Net Book Agreement. The end of the Net Book Agreement is good news for academic books - for their authors, their readers, and their booksellers. Last week, the NBA...
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Net loss is a big gain
Joe Sinyor welcomes the end of the Net Book Agreement. The end of the Net Book Agreement is good news for academic books - for their authors, their readers, and their booksellers. Last week, the NBA...
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Splashes of red on a postwar canvass
Election '45
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Political giants and garden gnomes
Nehru to the Nineties - Lal Bahadur Shastri, Prime Minister of India 9 June 1964 - 11 January 1966 - India's Rise to Power in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
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Regents' shot echoes
The story of affirmative action at the University of California is still continuing. The shot fired by the embattled farmers of the American Revolution was heard round the world. The Board of Regents...
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A plug for the future
Power Surge - Power from Wind - The Future of Energy Use
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Don's Diary
TUESDAY. The first working day of the New Year, and the official first day of my new lecturing post at Lancaster. I decide to prioritise emptying my previous office and will make my appearance...