British designers, artists, musicians and writers have looked with envy at the billions spent recently on science. Many of their subjects could have been funded for the price of one of the research...
No one at the Royal College of Physicians has ever said that fewer women or more men should go into medicine because it is incompatible with family life (News, THES , April 19). Our reports on women...
I am responding to an article on bullying in the School of Nursing at the University of Nottingham (News, THES , April 26). The Association of University Teachers has admitted to flaws in its...
I am surprised at the THES (April 26) not knowing the difference between a language and its spelling in the item on proposals to reform the Russian language. "The proposals involve 23 changes to the...
Stephen Logan is right that English readers neglect modern Welsh writing (Features, THES , April 26). But writers with wide appeal such as Kate Roberts and Sheenagh Pugh do not appear in English...
According to Avi Shlaim (Features, THES , April 26), Israel mounted Operation Defensive Shield "to destroy the Palestinian Authority; and to extinguish once and for all Palestinian aspirations to...
The article by my colleague Avi Shlaim on recent Israeli history is a selective account of facts and sources. He deprecates the election of Binyamin Netanyahu in 1996 but fails to explain that a...
Recent press coverage has stated that I support a graduate tax for students earning more than £25,000 (News, THES , April 19). For the record, I do not support it and never have supported it,...
Ethnic minorities find the UK film and TV industry shut to them, says Sara Wajid, but Geoff Watts reports on an experiment proving that racism is not hard wired. Twelve years after the rap group...
Ethnic minorities find the UK film and TV industry shut to them, says Sara Wajid, but Geoff Watts reports on an experiment proving that racism is not hard wired. Stripped of its layers of ham,...
As Britons express shock over the success of Jean-Marie Le Pen in France's presidential election, Adrian Favell argues that we should examine our own xenophobic tendencies. Republicans versus...
Biologists classify the living world hierarchically into phyla, classes, orders, families, genera and species. Within the phylum of vertebrates, for instance, mammals constitute a class; carnivores...
For all its medical potential, cloning is still an unknown quantity, report Clare Mills and Jaap de Roode. Once the very symbol of cloning, Dolly the sheep is suffering from premature arthritis in...
Highly qualified, English-speaking doctors who have escaped oppression, civil wars and torture are being prevented from practising in the UK for want of a formal language qualification. Claire...
There was a new star in the sky over the island of La Palma last May. The British astronomers who were monitoring the phenomenon observed it again this January. Yet its appearance was no surprise -...