Does the election of two British National Party members to the European Parliament signal the renewed rise of fascism?
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/ 18 February 2009
John Updike was among the most acute observers of American life and one of the most prolific. So where should a new reader begin? John Crace reports.
Language guru David Crystal tells John Crace that txt spk is not responsible for bad spelling or moral decay.
When two car bombs were detonated within hours in August 1998 at the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, few people had heard of either Osama bin Laden or al-Qaeda. Nor was anyone that much better informed by 9/11. And that’s just the academics. Terrorism had never really featured as a separate discipline in US universities and even in Europe its popularity was in decline.
You can’t help seeing it as a kind of back-handed compliment. No sooner had his daughter announced that she intended to train to be a doctor than David Wootton decided to start work on <i>Bad Medicine</i>, a book that comes with the catchy subtitle <i>Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates</i>. Wootton smiles, unfazed by the association. "It’s true that my daughter’s career choice did spark my interest in the history of medicine," he says, "but the title is somewhat misleading.
Imagine a chocolate-box Jane Austen theme-park Britain, where the poor are kept safely out of sight and the gentle-folk heave their bosoms with repressed emotion. That’s precisely the image that many Chinese students have of modern Britain, according to a new report carried out by Greg Philo, head of Glasgow University’s (Scotland) Media Group, for the British Council.
As professor of modern history at Cambridge university and one of Britain’s leading experts on the Nazi period, Richard Evans has made yet another contribution to the Nazi canon with his newly published book The Coming of the Third Reich, the first in a trilogy on Nazi Germany. But with libraries teeming with thousands of […]
It’s the year 2076 and the Mars transporter is nearing the end of its six-month journey to relieve the inhabitants of the planet’s space station. A warning bell sounds. The oxygen supply has failed and the crew have five minutes before their organs inflate and their blood begins to boil. Steve is expected to fix […]
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/ 22 November 2002
In 1978 Peter Austin was introduced to Jack Butler, a 77-year-old man from the mountainous iron mining district of Maroonah Station, 1 000km north of Perth in western Australia. Butler was the last speaker of the aboriginal language Jiwarli.