‘There are people in tents writing dissertations’: UK reaches for scale of US campus protests
Pro-Palestine protesters hope encampments at universities will contribute to an ‘international student revolt’
April 2024
Study sheds light on the white dwarf star, likely destroyer of our solar system
Huge gravity of these dense stars, which have burned all their own fuel, rips apart smaller planetary bodies
March 2024
An Evening With The Fast Show review – chummy chat and catchphrase classics
Ted and Ralph, the ‘Suit you!’ tailors and the rest of the gang’s most fondly remembered characters reconvene for a 30th-anniversary greatest hits sketch show, interspersed with the cast’s reminiscences about their creation
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Robin Okey obituary
Other lives: Leading specialist on east European history and on the culture of Welsh nationalism
Wim Hof breathing and cold-exposure method may have benefits, study finds
Adrenaline release thought to dampen inflammation, but experts say method ‘not without risks’
February 2024
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Jim Davis obituary
Other lives: Theatre historian and academic who became an expert on Victorian pantomime
December 2023
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Christina Britzolakis obituary
Other lives: English lecturer at Warwick University who wrote a book analysing the writing of Sylvia Plath
October 2023
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Patrick Kelly obituary
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Peter Mack obituary
May 2023
London’s ‘super-prime’ property market back to pre-Brexit levels
More than 160 luxury homes worth £10m or more have been sold in past year at a combined price of £3.1bn
April 2023
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Bill Dusinberre obituary
Other lives: Reader in history at Warwick University who specialised in writing about American slavery
March 2023
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Graham Pyatt obituary
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Eileen McLeod obituary
December 2022
Tom Marsh obituary
Astronomer who explored how a white dwarf star and a normal one can interact to provide surges in brightness or a supernova
June 2022
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Harry Goulbourne obituary
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Dick Sargent obituary
January 2022
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Iain Smith obituary
Other lives: Academic who specialised in British colonial history and the South African war
September 2021
Awaiting a ‘tsunami of Covid’: UK lecturers fear students’ return
The Audio Long Read
From the archives: Accelerationism: how a fringe philosophy predicted the future we live in – podcast
July 2021
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Alan Lovell obituary
Other lives: Academic who was one of the pioneers of film studies in the 1960s and 70s
