Exploring pathways in the east
THE conventional view that land, capital and labour provide the keys to economic development has been augmented by economic theories which stress that updated knowledge and skills through education...
THE conventional view that land, capital and labour provide the keys to economic development has been augmented by economic theories which stress that updated knowledge and skills through education...
The National Union of Students has bowed to demands from Scottish student leaders for an independent inquiry into allegations of corruption in the NUS. A motion at the recent NUS Scotland conference...
Thursday With a day's leave to hand I visit the Paula Rego exhibition at the Liverpool Tate gallery. I am stunned by the quality and range of her work. In the afternoon I go to the Alma Tadema...
Volcanoes are all the rage in Tinseltown. Tim Cornwell looks at how the studios have attempted to cloak their hokum with a veneer of academic respectability. The film Volcano opened in Los Angeles...
The latest low-budget feature to emerge from Australia's film-school alumni continues a success rate young British filmmakers can only dream of. Chris Johnston reports. We were just dying to make a...
Australian films have achieved success around the world since the first wave of filmmakers broke through in the 1970s. Hits such as Mad Max and Picnic at Hanging Rock paved the way for recent efforts...
Bernard Crick argues that we already have a quasi-federal state - it's called Britain. The current angry chauvinism springs only from English, not British, angst. Whenever I read a report of a...
Tim Lang, Erik Millstone and Mike Rayner send a memo to the prime minister on why international experience suggests he should set up a new food agency. Now the general election has passed, the new...
Jung Chang is taking the art of history writing from the familial to the global with her biography of Mao. Lucy Hodges talked to her about it. Later this month - just weeks before Hong Kong reverts...
Tales from Ovid
Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects
The Oxford History of World Cinema
R. K. Narayan
Atlas of Eastern Europe in the 20th Century
An Atlas of English Dialects