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  1. Don's diary: enlightenment and kneecapping

    Saturday I am walking through Knightsbridge to see U. G. Krishnamurti, an independent philosopher with a reputation for being nihilistic, as well as enlightened. U. G. has six people with him and...

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  2. Why I believe philosophy still matters

    I do not believe philosophy is a means to much - I am from the cradle a philosopher of Michael Oakeshott's bent and believe with him that philosophy does not yield a recipe for doing anything, and...

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  3. Outsider's manifesto

    Enough old boys - Oxford needs a change, says Sandi Toksvig, who has entered the chancellor's race It is not something that has occurred to me before, but I am hoping to follow in the Duke of...

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  4. Intellectual fibre, not nuggets

    The government wants McUniversities, but Dennis Hayes says a diet of solid research is all we should serve Top-up fees and student debt are not the most important issues in the government's white...

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  5. In a bit of a jam

    Pity poor Graham Zellick, vice-chancellor of London University, who was unable to register as exempt from the capital's congestion charge because the university pays his bills. Professor Zellick has...

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  6. Wanted: cut-price v-c who packs a punch

    Higher education is to be given its own directorate within the Department for Education and Skills for the first time to help the sector to "punch its weight" in Whitehall. Advertisements will appear...

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  9. First Impressions

    This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a book named after a poem by Yeats: "Okonkwo was well known throughout the nine villages and even...

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