Black gold blackens future
To reduce global warming, we must decarbonise, says Mike Hulme. How far do you usually think ahead? A day? A week? A year? A lifetime? The chances are that you will do a lot of thinking about...

To reduce global warming, we must decarbonise, says Mike Hulme. How far do you usually think ahead? A day? A week? A year? A lifetime? The chances are that you will do a lot of thinking about...
Economic Sentiments
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Earthly Necessities
Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train
Financial Decision-Making in Mexico
Now where are we now? Ah, yes. Item 6. Anticipating political initiatives. Is this you, Doctor Quintock? I appear to have mislaid the agenda. Yes indeed, Professor Lapping. Now, as I'm sure we all...
I was sorry to hear that Margaret Hodge had a bad experience at the LSE and wrote only one essay in three years. She might have preferred to come on the BA urban planning here. Over three years our...
Dorothy Zinberg writes about "the invisible college of the Middle Ages, often thought to have given rise to the British Royal Society" (World view, THES , June 15). In fact the Royal Society started...
Although I no longer have a formal connection to the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts, I must correct an inaccuracy concerning comments attributed to me ("Famous for the wrong reasons", THES ,...
Margaret Hodge, the new minister for higher education, says that she was neglected as a student at the London School of Economics in the 1960s and allowed to get away with writing only one essay in...
It is to be hoped that those in government take a wider view than the new higher education minister. The picture she has of university life is dated and insulting. My experience as an engineering...
Margaret Hodge sets a poor example to students in her first interview. She excuses her own limited performance as a university student by saying that she "should have been forced to do more work" by...
Margaret Hodge is reported as describing her undergraduate experience at the LSE as "outrageous". I have to agree. Hodge says that she "was off university for six months after I injured my back and...
It is good to know that higher education policy is in safe hands, based as it is on the fact that Margaret Hodge, unlike many of her contemporaries who seized the opportunity on offer, was an...