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UK universities confront possible downsides of new free speech law

UK Harvey Morris - September 13, 2023.

British universities are embarking on the first academic year in which they will have to navigate the terms of a new law that seeks to...

UK?s China ?reset? seen as no substitute for a long-term strategy

UK Harvey Morris - September 6, 2023.

The UK?s bid to put its relationship with China on a more positive track has opened the government to the charge that it is putting...

Art theft: when life can be stranger than art

UK Catriona M. Munro, TA Editor in Chief - September 4, 2023.

Major Sir William Newenham Montague Orpen (1878-1931) was an Irish-born artist and draughtsman who settled for most of his life in London. He was acknowledged...

Legal challenges rock British government?s boats plan

UK Harvey Morris - August 30, 2023.

The essence of Britain?s unwritten constitution is that the law is whatever the majority in Parliament says it is. In practice, parliamentary supremacy is hedged around...

A cocktail of joy

UK Catriona M. Munro, TA Editor in Chief - August 28, 2023.

For some reason, The Times reported this week that the? most popular lunchtime? snack in the UK is - and has been for some decades...

How a maestro did it: Michael Parkinson and the lost art of conversation

UK Catriona M. Munro, TA Editor in Chief - August 22, 2023.

When did you last watch an interesting chat show on television? They were all the rage in the 1970?s, when middle-aged men, appeared genie-like in...

Woke: The new religion?

Globalization Catriona M. Munro, TA Editor in Chief - July 24, 2023.

Have you been to Church recently - apart from to attend weddings or funerals?? If not, you are not alone: Average Church attendance was 509,000...

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