Losers in a numbers game
AS A lecturer in a 2-rated department trying to pull itself up on the crumbs of development money from the last research assessment exercise, it was with interest that I spent time recently visiting...
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Losers in a numbers game
I HAVE been told by my head of department at the Institute of Russian and East European studies, University of Glasgow, that my temporary contract will not be renewed when it expires in September...
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Breadth and the powerful
A Swedish- American friend told me some 35 years ago how eager his parents had been to buy a set of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. This was to ensure that he and his two brothers would have broad...
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Look out, there are customers about
When travelling I find it mildly disconcerting to be referred to as a customer rather than a passenger. The former implies a purposeful freedom rather than the relative imprisonment of, say, a high-...
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Treasury 'betrays' Labour pledge
THE Treasury is behind a deal struck with employers that betrays the government's public commitment to improve education and training for 16- and 17-year-olds, it has been claimed. Liberal Democrats...
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Tw(a)in lives
Inventing Mark Twain - The Courtship of Olivia Langdon and Mark Twain
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Castilians struck by rhyming
Agenda
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Really gross domestic product
The Real Meaning of Money - Frozen Desire
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Trumpeting troublemakers
The Ancient Celts
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Highty, tighty, paradighty
The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes
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History of a false dichotomy
The Sacred and the Secular
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Retouched by a myriad dreams
Camera Indica
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Return of the native writers
Handbook of Twentieth-Century Literatures of India
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Britannia's cadet years
Fleet Battle and Blockade - A Political Tour through Rochester, Chatham, Maidstone, Gravesend - The Safeguard of the Sea - Nelson's Battles
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A refuge for a grouse or two
Previous Convictions