Just a quick pointer to some new research into smuggling in the eighteenth century. See the Scientific American’s summary.
A piece well worth reading on the problems facing Oxbridge. When it comes to admissions, Oxford can’t avoid criticism. This piece is one of the first intelligent analyses of the problem I have seen in a national newspaper for some time. More like this, please.
The Cambridge Exam board has created new A-level exams. I left school before the modular system had really taken root, though it was in full swing for science subjects at the time, and certainly before the sixth form was split into two more or less entirely self-contained years with more subjects studied in the first [...]
We live in an age that does not spend as much money as our ancestors did making things and spaces beautiful. I do not pretend to understand the economics involved, or why there should have been a shift, but the effort that went in to making the London Underground attractive is quite staggering. Now we [...]
Now here is an interesting idea. Why not select a Unity Ticket for the U.S. Presidential elections in 2008 – that is, a Democrat and Republican running together for President and Vice-President? As the Washington Post notes today, the idea has influential figures behind it. Except, of course, that it won’t work. The post of [...]