The mighty underdogs
WHAT A pleasure it was to see my honest colleague, Jim Bulpitt, write in your pages about his decision to vote Tory in the forthcoming election with such unremitting frivolity (THES, April 18). How I...
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Students at ballot box
BY GIVING the percentage of students in constituencies to two decimal places (eg 14.92 per cent in Leeds Northwest) (THES, April 18) you suggest that student numbers can be estimated accurately to...
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Virtual minefield
MYCONCERN about Niall Ferguson's counterfactual history is its likely misuse (THES, April 4). Virtual history will be used to try and legitimise the revival of policy or political ideology that has...
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Don's diary
Monday. I join the Royal Research Ship Discovery in the port of Vigo, Spain. Meet the old and a few new faces in the ship's crew and the other scientists sailing with me. It is a multicultural...
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Regions in search of an identity
When the polytechnics became the latest wave of new universities in 1992 there was a scramble to retain or adopt an attractive city title. But as many of the older universities had already...
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A voyage around V. S.
Conversations with V. S. Naipaul
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The future of an illusion
An Intelligent Person's Guide to Postwar Britain - Our Currency, Our Country - A Grand Illusion? An Essay on Europe
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Pessimism the Proustian way
How Proust Can Change Your Life
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Speaking Volumes: Stephen Poppel's Zionism in Germany 1897-1933: The Shaping of a Jewish Identity
On Stephen Poppel's Zionism in Germany 1897-1933: The Shaping of a Jewish Identity. The history and culture of British Jews count among the most dynamic research fields in Jewish studies. Yet as...
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Time with added colour
The Illustrated A Brief History of Time
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Where elephants may swim
The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
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Enlightened paths
The Oxford Dictionary of World Religions - A New Handbook of Living Religions
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A feminist murder of a myth
After Christianity
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The evil origin of the species
Radical Evil - Creating the Kingdom of Ends - Evil