28 May 2009
Step up to the mike - The decline of the public intellectual voice leaves a dangerous void

Step up to the mike - The decline of the public intellectual voice leaves a dangerous void
Survey shows that some plan to slash research budgets by up to 40 per cent. Zoƫ Corbyn reports
Royal college cites doctorsā ānegative attitudesā to subject in highlighting dearth of entrants. Hannah Fearn reports
Outrage over MPsā expenses will be as nothing to the howls unleashed when people learn that āeducation, education, educationā was a false promise, says Gloria Monday

I decide to get a courier service to collect my things from the university. 17 boxes. They are all delivered in NICEDAY packaging. āHave a nice day,ā says the courier. āI will, thank you,ā I reply. I...
Problems with āconsistency and interpretationā mean it may be time to ābust openā classification. Hannah Fearn writes

MPs demand apology from Lammy as they learn there will be no new scrutiny of London Met crisis. Melanie Newman reports
MPs allege that Hefce colluded with university over inaccurate data. Melanie Newman reports
When one looks up at the night sky, many questions are evoked: why do stars twinkle? Why does the moon have so many phases? How many stars are there? Are we alone in the Universe?However, as non-...
Lord Raglan (1885-1964) was a self-taught anthropologist and folklorist. For him, religion means ritual, not belief, but he brings together myth with ritual in his key book, The Hero (1936).The "myth...

June Purvis welcomes a compelling tale of an overlooked feminist
An analysis of workers' alliances should engage more with workers themselves, says Sian Moore
Once upon a time," complains Prince Lucio Rimanez in the best-selling of Victorian novels, Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan (1895), "it was considered the height of indelicacy and low breeding to...

Whether or not "writing about music is like dancing about architecture. It's a stupid thing to do", as a quip often attributed to Elvis Costello would have it, the uses of music within fiction are...
A. W. Purdue finds a study of a neglected area of the 20th century complex and penetrating