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Margot Finn welcomes a timely study of the UK's role in sheltering academic refugees
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Christopher Innes discusses a man whose talent to provoke made him the perfect radio personality
In 399BC, Socrates was sentenced to death. The charges, as far as we can reconstruct them, were vague: impiety, worshipping new gods, corrupting the young. It is startling that such accusations led...
This book is addressed to would-be "existential" psychotherapists and is written for their instruction. Since there surely cannot be enough of them to provide a viable readership, the book must...
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Support campaign kicks off as science writer insists he will continue fighting suit over remarks about chiropractic treatments. Zoë Corbyn reports