Middlesex to phase out philosophy
Institution’s top-ranking research could close in light of ‘continuing constraints on public funding’. John Morgan reports
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‘Cleggmania’, fees and the student vote
Lib Dem leader’s success in televised debates and party’s stance on tuition fees yield upturn in support. Melanie Newman reports
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Book of the week: Duke Ellington's America
Trevor Herbert is struck by the mass of evidence brought to bear on a musical aristocrat's life
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Theories of Social Capital: Researchers Behaving Badly
Judith Mehta takes heed of a cautionary tale about the lazy deployment of abstract concepts
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Reality Hunger: A Manifesto
David Shields has had one or two thoughts. But instead of putting them in a dustbin, he's put them in a book. As soon as I write that, I am overcome with remorse. I know how difficult it is to have...
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The Canon: Life and Labour of the People in London. Edited by Charles Booth
In 1889, Charles Booth's research into poverty in East London was published under the title Life and Labour of the People. Accompanying the text was a street map showing gradations of poverty in a...
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Protect and serve
Bill Jordan is scathing of New Labour's social policy, but has some trenchant suggestions for whoever takes power next week, writes Matthew Reisz
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Trials of the Diaspora: A History of Anti-Semitism in England
Geoffrey Alderman finds much to commend in this vast account of anti-Jewish prejudice in England
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Liberalism and Prostitution
This is an intriguing and somewhat controversial book in which the author favourably considers the value of "paternalistic" prostitution laws. Peter de Marneffe situates this version of paternalism...
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The Emancipated Spectator
The Algerian-born Jacques Ranciere, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Paris Saint-Denis, is the latest in a long line of "new" French philosophers. Ranciere, who has risen to fame...
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The English Lakes: A History
The Lake District has been fought over and revelled in. Jonathan Bate enjoys a tale of a little paradise
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Published this week
? = Review forthcomingBIOLOGICAL SCIENCES- Ant Encounters: Interaction Networks and Colony BehaviorBy Deborah M. Gordon, professor of biology, Stanford University. Princeton University Press, £13.95...
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General Election - 'Academy cash? What about spending a penny in public?'
With the general election only a week away, Times Higher Education spent a day on the stump with three academics running for national office. Migration, social responsibility and public lavatories...
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Blog confidential: The managerial perspective (part two: a response)
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online
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Appointments
University of LeicesterCorrine FowlerCorrine Fowler has joined the University of Leicester's School of English as a lecturer in 20th-century postcolonial literature. She said Leicester was the...