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Andrew Linzey's opinion piece sidesteps the context in which both the Old and New Testaments were produced. The founders of Judaism and Christianity were concerned with reforming the behaviour of...
Andrew Linzey's opinion piece sidesteps the context in which both the Old and New Testaments were produced. The founders of Judaism and Christianity were concerned with reforming the behaviour of...
My friend Andrew Linzey has helped to break an often pervasive and corrupting silence within mainstream Anglicanism about homosexuality. My impression is that the bishops are mainly concerned to "...
Andrew Linzey and I have happily worked together editing Gays and the Future of Anglicanism , but the job of director of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement remains mine and not his! The Rev...
The situation that has developed at the School of Oriental and African Studies regarding East Asian studies is grave (Letters, August 26). According to reliable information, two senior specialist...
A mean score of 3.7 for "Overall I am satisfied with the quality of my course" in the student satisfaction survey, where 3 is "neither agree nor disagree" and 4 is "mostly agree", doesn't sound to me...
Is Frank Furedi having a laugh ("Be afraid, be very afraid ... no don't", September 16)? He claims "fear entrepreneurs" are playing fast and loose with evidence and analysis, constructing exaggerated...
Last week, Education Secretary Ruth Kelly not only told Universities UK to crack down on extremism but also indicated her desire to see hi-tech companies and venture capitalists clustering around...
I read Chris McManus's review of Douwe Draaisma's book Why Life Speeds up as You Grow Older: How Memory Shapes our Past with great interest (Books, September 16). McManus states: "This book does not...
My colleagues and I would like to request a higher degree of quality control in your front-page articles. While you invariably cover the issues of the day, the odd piece sneaks through without a...
Fears grow, post 9/11 and 7/7, that universities may be an explosive cocktail of the clever and the gullible, the shadowy recruiters and the would-be warriors Universities must monitor subversives to...
Gordon Johnson argues that concerns about campus subversion are best tackled in a wider social context Britain has had long experience in dealing with terrorism. A century or more of the Troubles in...
Omar Sheikh, who is awaiting execution in Pakistan for the murder of journalist Daniel Pearl, studied at the London School of Economics in the 1990s. He grew up in London and was known as a...
Extremist groups can find a ready source of idealistic recruits within universities, according to Anthony Glees. "Mass higher education in Britain offers easy pickings," he says. Much of the...
There was once an academic whose remarkable imagination was rivalled only by her ability to grasp the possible. She was fearless, she could think the unthinkable, she was set to change our world....
Inspired by the fact-free revisionism of the Hollywood historical blockbuster, leading academics outline their worst celluloid nightmares The Death Of Old Europe Richard Evans, professor of modern...