First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from the autobiographyof an angry older man: "May 8th is the one unforgettable feast in my calendar..." The...
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New folk devils on urban landscape
The Asian Gang
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Shaming in public? It'll do you good
The Monochrome Society
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Sorrowful souvenirs of trench tourists
The Politics of War Memory and Commemoration - World War 1 and the Cultures of Modernity - The Construction of Memory in Interwar France
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The lure of the lights of China's big cities
Internal Migration in Contemporary China
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Duty is in the face of the other
The End of Human Rights
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Laurie Taylor
" Academics should be brought back to the heart of university management because executive rule is failing " - THES report on speech by Michael Shattock to Universities UK Conference Another coffee,...
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Letter: Flimsy comparison
Likening a DJ to a cinema projectionist is bizarre (Books, THES , November 2). If two films projected onto the same screen managed to be both coherent and different from their individual parts, it...
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Letter: In brief (1)
Your article on rational drug design (Features: research, THES , October 26) gave a good summary of current thinking about chemical modelling, given increasing costs in moving drugs through the...
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Letter: In brief (2)
What exactly is it that we would travel through if we time-travelled? (Features, THES , November 2). The concept of time seems to depend on our assumptions about changes in the condition and...
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Letter: In brief (3)
Any book on cultural studies has proved a red rag to reviewer Fred Inglis over the years, and mine was no exception (Books, THES , November 2). He missed two points. First, the book does not work...
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Letter: Unity rules, OK?
Michael Shattock's pronouncements that academics and managers should share governance of universities shocked me deeply ("Call for shared governance", THES , November 2). Does he mean that university...
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Letter: G-whiz, you're smart
Some people are smarter than others. But how unimaginative to be involved in the accountancy of "how much smarter". This g factor "shines through" for Robert Plomin (Features, THES , November 2) like...
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Letter: Some choice facts (1)
Your editorial criticising the Association of University Teachers for "restricting choice" in the election of a new general secretary shows a total lack of understanding of trade union law and equal...
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Letter: Some choice facts (2)
From your comments on the appointment of an AUT general secretary, we can expect that next time there is a vacancy for The THES editor, there will be no interviewing panel. All those who fancy the...