Letter: Berlin's one-liners
The temptation to rise to Christopher Wood's imputation to Isaiah Berlin of failure to produce one-liners (Books, THES , April 13) is irresistible. Berlin's writing and conversation were full of...
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Letter: Simplify the rules
This is a call to the government to simplify the student funding system. I hope it is a call that will be echoed by every student money adviser and sabbatical officer around the country ("Plunged...
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Leader: A better defence than a few damp fluffies
The arrogant disregard with which global corporations treat national governments is nothing new, as our business and management book reviews show. The clash of interests was identified decades ago....
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Leader: The public won't buy it if it doesn't look like it's fair
A substantial majority of the British public would like to see student grants restored across the United Kingdom as they are being in Scotland. They also share the Cubie committee's view, since acted...
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Taking tips from a time when wearing trainers ruled
The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age
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From angelic sex to sinful genes
The Genetic Inferno - Mendel's Demon
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Genesis and high gossip
<P style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> Roy Harris applies a Dionysiac breathalyser to the puzzle of creativity. "In the illusory babels of language," wrote the American sculptor Robert Smithson...
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Globalisation's poison pill
The Silent Takeover
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Body politic wasted by corporate virus
Captive State
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A little humdrum something to stagnate your creative juices
Creative Industries
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Pioneering spirit turns into greed
The Silicon Valley Edge
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Family china may be chipped but it is still very much in use
Chinese Big Business and the Wealth of Asian Nations
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The people v. the nerds
World War 3.0
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a comic novel by an Englishman best known as a playwright: "The sky grew darker and darker as the...
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Painters of society
Sir Joshua Reynolds - The Letters of Thomas Gainsborough - The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds