Free Riding
The barstool and tobacco-chewing view of politics as the activity of power-mad crooks has, of late, become the disgraceful commonplace of the yellow press. The corollary expectoration that political...
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The Black Death: An Intimate History
When history students choose the subject of their dissertations, they often opt for "the Black Death". One hopes they have selected this topic because the disastrous mortality of 1348-49 and the...
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Book of the week: 1918: A Very British Victory
A.W. Purdue on the high cost of the Armistice
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The week in books
Samuel Johnson: A Biography by Peter Martin, professor of English, Principia College in Illinois. Weidenfeld and Nicholson, £25.00 ISBN 9780297607199."Peter Martin is best known for a skilfully...
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Published this week
J = Review forthcomingART HISTORY-The Moral Mirror of Roman ArtBy Rabun Taylor, assistant professor of the history of art and architecture, Harvard UniversityCambridge University Press, £50.00 ISBN...
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Department of Media and Cultural Studies: Enquiries Office Notice Board
Dear Maureen'Credit crunch' holiday on north-east coast going well. If it wasn't for foul weather and lamentable standards of food and accommodation, British seaside resorts would be envy of the...
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Conference league loser
Kevin Fong's clash with the beautiful game leaves him sick as a parrot
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Off Piste: Siege mentality
A fortnightly series in which academics step outside their area of expertise. Terence Kealey reveals how hypocrisy, violence and torture in the America of George Washington have helped create the US...
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Guest leader: Not many breaks in the cloud
Conventional wisdom says universities do rather well in a recession. Don't count on it this time, warns John Craven
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Gerard Kelly, 1968-2008
Gerard Kelly, a former president of lecturers' trade union Natfhe, died of liver failure on 2 August at the age of 40.
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Oxford says goodbye to man with the Midas touch
Jon Dellandrea, the rock star of university fundraising, is standing down. John Gill reports
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Masters in the art of reinvention
The article "Artistic licence" (31 July) implies it is only recent digital developments that are "forcing" art and design courses to reinvent themselves. British art schools have constantly...
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Take me to your problem
It has become fashionable, in higher education as elsewhere, to complain about people's "leadership" when something is going on that you don't like. Thus, Paul Ramsden at the Higher Education Academy...
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Straightening the chair
I was disappointed to note that it could be inferred from your magazine that a black member of our staff, Udy Archibong, was appointed to a chair in 2004 as some form of reward for withdrawing a...
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Hang on a nanosecond!
We would like to make it clear that the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council is not "closing an avenue of study" in, or "declining to fund", certain areas of nanotechnology research ("...